Description |
134 pages ; 22 cm |
Series |
Fiction from modern China |
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Fiction from modern China.
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Summary |
This brilliant little novel, set against the backdrop of post-Mao China, juxtaposes recollections of childhood, pet ownership, and marriage with discussions of art, sex, and murder, weaving together an absurdist tapestry that is the inner life of the novel's felicitously named protagonist, Huang Haha. Deftly manipulating language and point of view, author Liu Sola combines a range of different voices from past and present, binding the resulting clash of disparate narrative and linguistic elements together with a rollicking sense of the absurd. Subversive, iconoclastic, and wholly irreverent, this novel was published in Hong Kong in 1991 but has yet to appear in China |
Notes |
A copy of this title was donated by Professor Ron Klein |
SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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Genre/Form |
War fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Author |
King, Richard, 1951 February 5-
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LC no. |
94009228 |
ISBN |
082481617X acid-free paper |
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082481651X paperback alkaline paper |
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