The Crazed - Couverture souple

Jin, Ha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099453592 ISBN 13 : 9780099453598

Editeur : Vintage, 2003

Synopsis

In his powerful new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - has been assigned to care for him. What initially seems a simple if burdensome duty becomes more problematic when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues, and a system in which a scholar is 'just a piece of meat on a cutting board.'Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. At once nuanced and fierce, earthy and humane, The Crazed is further evidence of Ha Jin's prodigious narrative gifts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the USA. He is the author of three books of poetry; three collections of stories, The Bridegroom, Under the Red Flag and Ocean of Words, a novella, In the Pond; and the international bestseller Waiting, winner of the US National Book Award. He lives in Boston.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099453592
• ISBN 13: 9780099453598
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie