A Dictionary of Maqiao

A Dictionary of Maqiao

From the daring imagination of one of Chinaâ€™s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originalityâ€“the story of a young man â€œdisplacedâ€ 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 inventionâ€“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 languageâ€“where the word for â€œbeginningâ€ is the same as the word for â€œendâ€; â€œlittle big brotherâ€ means older sister; to be â€œscientificâ€ means to be lazy; and â€œstreetsicknessâ€ is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful charactersâ€“from a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite himâ€“A Dictionary of Maqiao is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language.

Country	USA
Brand	Dial Press Trade Paperback
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780385339353
Model	9780385339353
Color	Multicolor
IsAdultProduct
Height	8.25
Length	5.19
Weight	0.70106999316
Width	0.94
ReleaseDate	2005-09-27
NumberOfItems	1

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