The Noodle Maker: a Novel - Ma Jian - Books - Picador - 9780312424794 - April 4, 2006
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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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 4, 2006
ISBN13 9780312424794
Publishers Picador
Pages 192
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 15 mm   ·   249 g
Language English  
Contributor Flora Drew

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