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Beijing Sprawl (Paperback)
Zechen Xu; Translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Jeremy Tiang
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Life (Paperback)
Lu Yao; Foreword by Eric Abrahamsen; Translated by Chloe Estep
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An essential masterwork from Chinese literary giant Lu Yao-winner
of the Mao Dun Literature Prize-available for the first time in
English. Lu Yao published only two novels before his untimely
death-but their extraordinary influence catapulted the author to
the top tier of Chinese contemporary fiction, establishing him as
one of the most widely read and respected figures in Chinese
literature. In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao's Life, we
meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man
from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt
local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher,
prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big
city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao
traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialin's difficult path to
professional, romantic, and personal fulfillment-or at least
hard-won acceptance. With the emotional acuity and narrative
mastery that secured his reputation as one of China's great
novelists, Lu Yao paints a vivid, emotional, and unsparing portrait
of contemporary Chinese life, seen through the eyes of a
working-class man who refuses to be broken.
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