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A Dictionary of Maqiao
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ISBN10: 0385339356
ISBN13: 9780385339353
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: Sep 27 2005
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.02
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.27 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780385339353
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: Sep 27 2005
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.02
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.27 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
From the daring imagination of one of China's greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality-the story of a young man displaced to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention-and a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.
Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, superstitions, and especially the odd logic in their use of language-where the word for beginning is the same as the word for end; little big brother means older sister; to be scientific means to be lazy; and streetsickness is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful characters-from a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite him-A Dictionary of Maqiao is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language.
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