Author: Ha Jin Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction Cultures: China, Asia
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ISBNs: 9781400032143 9780375714115 1400032148 0375714111 |
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Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family...
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. Lyrical and heart-breaking, The Crazed is an incisive portrait of modern Chinese society.
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