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The Noodle Maker: a Novel First edition
Ma Jian
The Noodle Maker: a Novel First edition
Ma Jian
From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.
Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln 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. Extraordinary characters inspire him, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they are balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker.
Ma Jian's satirical masterpiece allows us a humorous, yet profound, glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 4 de abril de 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780312424794 |
Editoras | Picador |
Páginas | 192 |
Dimensões | 140 × 216 × 15 mm · 249 g |
Idioma | English |
Contribuidor | Flora Drew |
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