Ha Jin: The Crazed, Wellington in Wellington, Wellington for sale

In THE CRAZED, Ha Jin deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Proffessor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - has been assigned to care for him. What initially seems a simple if burdensome duty becomes more problematic when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues and Chinese these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. At once nuanced and fierce, earthy and humane, THE CRAZED is futher evidence of Ha Jin's prodigious narrative gifts. 320 pages
Author
Ha Jin
Title
The Crazed
Publisher name
Vintage 2003 Paperback
Shipping time
3 - 7 days
Publication year
2003
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Good
Vendor name
Book Haven
Vendor rating
Key words
Fiction
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