2000, ISBN: 9780374223076

"One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical … Mehr…

"One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical and powerfully written novel--excerpted in The New Yorker--about the absurdities and cruelties of life in post-Tianamen China. Two men, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor, meet for dinner every week. During the course of one drunken evening, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln from an art school and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. He is inspired by extraordinary characters, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they were balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker. Ma Jian's masterpiece allows us a humorous yet profound glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move. Media >, [PU: Farrar, Straus and Giroux]<

2000, ISBN: 9780374223076

"One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical … Mehr…

"One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical and powerfully written novel--excerpted in The New Yorker--about the absurdities and cruelties of life in post-Tianamen China. Two men, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor, meet for dinner every week. During the course of one drunken evening, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln from an art school and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. He is inspired by extraordinary characters, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they were balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker. Ma Jian's masterpiece allows us a humorous yet profound glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move. Media >, [PU: Farrar, Straus and Giroux]<

2005, ISBN: 0374223076

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[EAN: 9780374223076], [SC: 25.7], [PU: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005) dj], LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, CHINESE AUTHOR, HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION - ASIAN AND AMERICAN NOISBN, Jacke… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780374223076], [SC: 25.7], [PU: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005) dj], LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, CHINESE AUTHOR, HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION - ASIAN AND AMERICAN NOISBN, Jacket, Hardcover first edition - First US printing. "A satirical and powerfully written novel about the absurdities and cruelties of life in post-Tianamen China. Two men, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor, meet for dinner every week. During the course of one drunken evening, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage . . . a humorous yet profound glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move." Ma Jian is now living in exile in England. In 1987 all of his books were banned in China. Translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew. 181 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket., Books<