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A Dictionary of Maqiao (Paperback)(Chinese / English)
$13.76 - Save $1.25 (8%) - RRP $15.01 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Dictionary of MaqiaoOne of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth "displaced" to a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution is a fictionalized portrait of the author's own experience as a young man.
Full description- Publisher: Dial Press
- Published: 27 September 2005
- Format: Paperback 394 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780385339353 ISBN 10: 0385339356
- Sales rank: 196,898
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Full description for A Dictionary of Maqiao
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.
