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Irish-American writer Colum McCann whose works are being translated into Chinese, shares his views on how the world is getting bigger, and also smaller, with Chitralekha BasuOn his maiden China visit, the Irish-American writer Colum McCann wants to "walk around, Replica Watches take photographs, explore, soak it up".On his second day in Beijing, he takes a walk down Sanlitun street until he comes to a small patch of green where middle-aged women wrapped in quilted jackets are kicking away at what looks like a multi-hued shuttlecock.

When he tries having a go at it, the women beckon him to join in. McCann dribbles with them, picking up the technique of balancing plumed jianzi on his toes like a skilled pro ("I have a soccer background you see, my Dad played it too"), for close to an hour.When he takes leave of them, the women smile genially and huddle together for a photograph. They do not have the faintest idea that McCann has just won America's National Book Award for "the first great 9/11 novel" - Let the Great World Spin. Links of London Gift Not a word is exchanged between them but the instant emotional connection is unmistakable.

"I wish I was carrying a copy of the Chinese translation of my book," says McCann, whose entire collection of works (five novels and two collections of short stories) is being translated by Shanghai 99, a company formed by several Chinese publishers to sell books primarily online."It's a thrill to be translated into a language one never imagined one would. It's a reminder that the world's getting bigger all the time and also smaller all the time." Let the Great World Spin, in a sense, is about this small world in which the histories of human experience are embedded.

The story opens in New York, on an August morning in 1974, when Philippe Petit, a French high wire artist (unnamed in the book), makes a rather audacious tightrope walk between the roofs of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.The rushing tide of people Links of London Discount on Manhattan's streets who stop in their tracks to watch him from beneath - "a tight little theater of men and women against the railings of St. Paul's Chapel Lawyers. Elevator operators. Doctors. Cleaners. Prep chefs. Diamond merchants. Fish sellers. Sad-jeaned whores" - make up a whole world unto itself, cutting across backgrounds, vocations and nationalities.The people who watch the drama become a part of the grand narrative of the tightrope walker's ambitious, spine-tingling and beatific journey.