Jian Ma: The Noodle Maker, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Noodle Maker
- Publisher:
- St. Martins Press-3PL, 04/2006
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312424794
- Item number:
- 2157938
- Volume:
- 192 Pages
- Weight:
- 249 g
- Format:
- 216 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 10 mm
- Release date:
- 4.4.2006
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.
Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries, while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. Extraordinary characters inspire him, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they are balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker.
Ma Jian's satirical masterpiece allows us a humorous, yet profound, glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.
Biography
Ma Jian, geb. 1953 in Qingdao, lebte als Schriftsteller und Maler in Beijing. Im Jahr 1976 ist er von Qingdao nach Peking gezogen. Nachdem in der VR China einige seiner Werke verboten wurden ging er 1986 nach Hong Kong, wo er das Verlagshaus Hong Kong New Century Press gründete. Im Jahr 1997 zog er nach Deutschland und unterrichtete dort Moderne chinesische Literatur. Zwei Jahre später zog er nach England, wo er heute noch lebt.
