Ninth Building (Paperback)
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Ninth Building (Paperback)

(author), (translator)
£11.99
Paperback 272 Pages
Published: 16/05/2022
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Waterstones Says

Full of piercing psychological insight and laced with jet-black humour, this exquisite collection of stories draws from the author’s childhood experiences during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, mixing the poetic with the political to unforgettable effect.

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 Star
ISBN: 9781739822507
Number of pages: 272
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

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