Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution,first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside.
Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about-the sheer tedium and waste of young life,as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate situations.
Jeremy Tiang's enthralling translation of this important work of fiction was awarded a PEN/Heim Grant.
Publisher: Honford StarISBN: 9781739822507Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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