The Noodle Maker
A Novel
From Ma 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, thei…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Drew, Flora (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-2402-3
- EAN: 9781429924023
- Produktnummer: 22468912
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 212 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
Über den Autor
Ma Jian; Translated by Flora Drew
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