The Earth Sings - Hardcover
Dramatizes the lives of Liang, a nine-year-old, and his Communist parents in a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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Original Language: French
A loyal Communist is sent to a small village to serve as prefect and helps to release the community from its primitive poverty. Then the Cultural Revolution breaks out and the prefect is branded a "capitalist," leading to much suffering for him and his family. Stories of this nature abound in the "scar literature" of China. If Ya Ding's novel has something new to add, it is that the story is told from the point of view of the nine-year-old son of the prefect. But the narrative voice most often sounds like that of an adult remembering childhood through a misty filter of romanticism and forced sophistication. In another plot twist, the village is dominated by a large church built by the French, and several of the villagers remain secret Christians. Unlike the Japanese novelist Endo Shusaku, however, Ya Ding seems to interpolate this foreign religion more from a sense of exoticism than conviction. Although the book was a bestseller in France, the reader here can find better stories dealing with this period of Chinese history.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 015176140X
- ISBN 13 9780151761401
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages261
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Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego, California, USA
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. CE1 - A hard cover first American edition book in very good condition. Stated first edition with no additional printings indicated. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in brown paper coverd boards quarter bound in orange cloth with gold lettering and graphics on the spine with very, very minor overall shelf wear with some very slight yellowing of the paper edges. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very light yellowing on the spine plus there is some very light scattered rubbing. Translated from the French by Jon Rothschild. A novel set in China during the Cultural Revolution. The main character is still young and lives with his family in a village deep in rural China. Though he was brought up in the city, he enjoys the rural life. He becomes fast friends with a local boy and imerses himself in rural life. But then becomes drawn into the brigade of children mobilized by Chairman Mao to destroy the old ways, driven in part by his dreams of being a hero of the Revolution just like his father. This is the author's first novel. By the author of "Le Cercle Du Petit Ciel" and "Le Sorgho Rouge." 261p. Size: 5.75"x8.5". Seller Inventory # SCW13009
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