Baotown
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393027112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 143 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"It’s a story of life and love: hard work" according to James W. Fonseca. A simple tale, almost fable-like, with short sentences, very fitting for the folks in the isolated rural Chinese village the story is about. While the short novel is set during the time of Mao, (probably around the 1970’s) and the author was herself separated from her family and sent to a commune when she was only 15, it’s not really about China’s Cultural Revolution. This
From Publishers Weekly In this slim volume, Wang Anyi, a Shanghai writer in her 30s, who like many of her generation spent eight years in rural exile during the Cultural Revolution, reminds us that the China of 200 million city dwellers, lately so evident on our TV screens, is far removed from the countryside that is home to more than 800 million peasants. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Here, she joins other young Chinese writers "seeking roots," and chronicles the rhythms of life in Baotown, a village both mythic and real, where everyone shares a common ancestor and the same last name, and all are wary of strangers. We learn of Picked-Up Feng, a young outsider who offends the whole village by marrying a widow twice his age. For those conscious of recent events in China, this seemingly simple tall tale will cas
One of China's most brilliant young writers opens up that world and shows us how it is strangely like our own, giving us the shocks of recognition that are the mark of a great art.