Liao Yiwu

The Corpse Walker

Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up

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The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities, creating a book that is an instance par excellence of what was once upon a time called The New Journalism.” The Corpse Walker reveals a fascinating asp… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-307-38837-7
EAN: 9780307388377
Produktnummer: 4277184
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.2 cm 261 g
Gewicht: 261

Über den Autor

Liao Yiwu is a poet, novelist, and screenwriter. In 1989, he published an epic poem, Massacre, that condemned the killings in Tiananmen Square and for which he spent four years in prison. His works include Testimonials and Report on China's Victims of Injustice. In 2003, he received a Human Rights Watch Hellman-Hammett Grant, and in 2007, he received a Freedom to Write Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Center. He lives in China.Wen Huang is a writer and freelance journalist whose articles and translations have appeared in The Wall Street Journal Asia, the Chicago Tribune, the South China Morning Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Paris Review.