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The seventh day / Yu Hua ; translated from the Chinese by Allan H. Barr.
Van Pelt Library PL2928.H78 D513 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yu, Hua, 1960- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Di qi tian. English
- 第七天. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014040565
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- China.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- 7th day
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
- Summary:
- Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest. Over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of the people he's lost.
- Notes:
- "A novel"--Jacket.
- "Originally published in China as Diqi tian by New Star Press, Beijing, in 2013"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780804197861
- 0804197865
- OCLC:
- 883747924
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