Golden age
Wang, Xiaobo, 1952-19972023
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Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing his virginity. His dreams come true in the shape of the beautiful doctor Cheng Qinyang. So begins the riotously funny story of their illicit love affair, the Party officials who enjoy their forced confessions a little too much, and Wang's life under the Communist regime- his misadventures as a biology lecturer in a Beijing university, and his entanglements with family, friends and lovers. Golden Age is an explosive, subversive, wild and hilarious satire, featuring one of literature's great protagonists, a sensation when it was published in the 1990s and beloved today.
Main title:
Golden age / Wang Xiaobo ; translated by Yan Yan.
Author:
Wang, Xiaobo, 1952-1997, authorYan, Yan (Translator), translator
Work:
Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Books, 2023.©2022
Collation:
266 pages ; 23 cm.
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Notes:
First published in Chinese as 'The Golden Years' by Thinkingdom Media Group Ltd. 2017. This English translation previously published in the United States of America by Astra House, 2022.Translated from the Chinese.
ISBN:
9780241630525 (hbk)9780241630525 (hbk)9780241630525 (hardback)
Dewey class:
895.136
LC class:
PL2919.H8218
Language:
EnglishChinese
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BRN:
770414
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| City Library | Fiction | WANG | Available |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | WANG | Available |