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Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, this novel is a virtuoso piece of red humour about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. A father desperate for a son abandons his retarded daughter; an illegal migrant scrapes a living by writing love letters, but can't help falling in love himself; a heartbroken actress performs her own suicide in front of a packed audience, a young entrepreneur uses an old pottery kiln to set up a private crematorium and is overwhelmed by demand
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The Noodle Maker, Jian Ma
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2004
- Reliure
- (souple)
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- Titre
- The Noodle Maker
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Jian Ma
- Éditeur
- Chatto & Windus
- Publié
- 2004
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0701176059
- ISBN13
- 9780701176051
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Nouvelles, Chine, Littérature asiatique, Littérature chinoise
- Évaluation
- 3,4 sur 5
- Description
- Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, this novel is a virtuoso piece of red humour about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. A father desperate for a son abandons his retarded daughter; an illegal migrant scrapes a living by writing love letters, but can't help falling in love himself; a heartbroken actress performs her own suicide in front of a packed audience, a young entrepreneur uses an old pottery kiln to set up a private crematorium and is overwhelmed by demand