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Synopsis
In his powerful new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - has been assigned to care for him. What initially seems a simple if burdensome duty becomes more problematic when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues, and a system in which a scholar is 'just a piece of meat on a cutting board.'Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. At once nuanced and fierce, earthy and humane, The Crazed is further evidence of Ha Jin's prodigious narrative gifts.
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"Expertly done" (Daily Mail)
"A compelling book... [Jin] has a fine sense of the human scale of history and an eye for the absurd" (Guardian)
"[Jin's] new novel...again demonstrates his literary gifts" (The Times)
"A fascinating tale told with skill and eloquence; a truly wonderful read" (Publishing News)
"The Crazed...is a complicated web of human attachments. Like the best realist writers, Ha Jin sneaks emotional power into the plainest declarative sentences" (New Yorker)
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Ha Jin's first novel since Waiting offers a riveting and deftly executed expos- of the troubles of contemporary China, set against the background of political unrest at Tiananmen Square.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0099453592
- ISBN 13 9780099453598
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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