Author: XIANLIANG, ZHANG; TRANS. BY MARTHA AVERY
Title: Half of Man Is Woman; a Novel
Description: Toronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0886191866. Small spot bottom page edges, light edge wear to dustjacket ; DJ in Mylar, bright, solid book ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages; "Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the postion of intellectuals. A year later he is ready to abandon his wife and escape from the camp. Cameo appearances by philosophic and literary figures Marx and Meng-tz, Othello and Song Jian discussing China and sex which allows the incorporation of non-novelistic elements while indulging in gallows humor. The references to Western culture and the translator's historical notes should make this complex and fascinating book easily accessible." This books states that it is a novel but it is a fictionalized account of the author's experiences.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0886191866 China Cultural revolution FICTION Biographies & Memoirs ASIA
See more books from our catalog: Asia::Autobiography
Title: Half of Man Is Woman; a Novel
Description: Toronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0886191866. Small spot bottom page edges, light edge wear to dustjacket ; DJ in Mylar, bright, solid book ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages; "Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the postion of intellectuals. A year later he is ready to abandon his wife and escape from the camp. Cameo appearances by philosophic and literary figures Marx and Meng-tz, Othello and Song Jian discussing China and sex which allows the incorporation of non-novelistic elements while indulging in gallows humor. The references to Western culture and the translator's historical notes should make this complex and fascinating book easily accessible." This books states that it is a novel but it is a fictionalized account of the author's experiences.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0886191866 China Cultural revolution FICTION Biographies & Memoirs ASIA
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 12213
- Book number: 12213
See more books from our catalog: Asia::Autobiography