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Name: The Crazed

Author: Ha Jin
Year: 2002
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Genres/categories:
Fiction, Historical fiction
Cultures: China, Asia

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ISBNs:
9781400032143
9780375714115
1400032148
0375714111

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.