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Life / Lu Yao ; translated by Chloe Estep.
Van Pelt Library PL2880.U196 R4513 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lu, Yao, 1949-1992, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Ren sheng. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teachers--Fiction.
- Teachers.
- Manners and customs.
- Ambition.
- China.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Ambition--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- China--Social life and customs--1976-2002--Fiction.
- China--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : AmazonCrossing, [2019]
- Summary:
- Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic and ambitious young man from a small country village, life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city.
- Notes:
- "Lu Yao published only two novels before his untimely death - but their extraordinary influence catapulted the author to the top tier of Chinese contemporary fiction, establishing him as one of the most widely read and respected figures in Chinese literature. In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao's Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialin's difficult path to professional, romantic, and personal fulfillment - or at least hard-won acceptance. With the emotional acuity and narrative mastery that secured his reputation as one of China's great novelists, Lu Yao paints a vivid, emotional, and unsparing portrait of contemporary Chinese life, seen through the eyes of a working-class man who refuses to be broken."--taken from back cover.
- Translated from the Chinese.
- "Previously published as 人生 by China Youth Publishing House in 1982"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781542044622
- 1542044626
- OCLC:
- 1084302500
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