num_pages: 54
description: Describing etiquette, government, irrigation, education, clogs, kites, rumour, poetry, justice, massage, town-planning, sex and ventriloquism in an obsolete nation. Alasdair Gray was born in 1934. He obtained a diploma in Design and Mural Painting in 1957 and has since earned his living in Glasgow, mostly by painting and writing. Much of his fiction is published in Penguin, including 1982 Janine, Poor Things, Ten Tales Tall &amp; True and Unlikely Stories, Mostly, from which Five Letters from an Eastern Empire is taken.
language: English
title: Five Letters from an Eastern Empire
titlecomplete: Five Letters from an Eastern Empire
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 107
publisher: Penguin