A Dictionary of Maqiao

From the daring imagination of one of China's greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power...
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Author: Han Shaogong
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Language: English
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A Dictionary of Maqiao by Shaogong, Han

A Dictionary of Maqiao

€34,33

A Dictionary of Maqiao

€34,33
Author: Han Shaogong
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From the daring imagination of one of China's greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality-the story of a young man "displaced" to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention-and a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.
Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, superstitions, and especially the odd logic in their use of language-where the word for "beginning" is the same as the word for "end"; "little big brother" means older sister; to be "scientific" means to be lazy; and "streetsickness" is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful characters-from a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite him-A Dictionary of Maqiao is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language.

Author: Han Shaogong
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 09/27/2005
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.27w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780385339353


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 63
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 47

About the Author
Han Shaogong is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and translator. He is also the former editor of the magazines Hainan Review and Frontiers and is the vice-chairman of the Hainan Writer's Association.

Julia Lovell is a translator of modern Chinese literature and a research fellow at Queen's College, Cambridge.

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