The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up - Rilegato

Yiwu, Liao

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ISBN 10: 037542542X ISBN 13: 9780375425424

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 2008

Riassunto

Offering a vivid portrait of the bottom of modern-day Chinese society, a collection of oral histories reveals the lives of ordinary, sometimes outcast, Chinese men and women, including a professional mourner, a trafficker in humans, a leper, an abbot, a retired government official, a mortician, a political prisoner, and others. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Revealing. . . . full of forbearance and forgiveness. . . . Each re-created interview...captures a particular individual at a crucial time in Chinese history.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Stunning. . . . Revealing in its incidental details. . . . Liao brings us fascinating insights into the lives of all manner of workers....an addictive book.”
—Bookforum

“Reading The Corpse Walker is like walking with Liao: Even though our feet are not blistered and our bodies are not starved, in the end we are shaken and moved.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Liao Yiwu is a poet, novelist, and screenwriter. In 1989, he published an epic poem, "Massacre," that condemned the killings in Tiananmen Square and for which he spent four years in prison. His works include Testimonials and Report on China's Victims of Injustice. In 2003, he received a Human Rights Watch Hellman-Hammett Grant, and in 2007, he received a Freedom to Write Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Center. He lives in China.

Wen Huang is a writer and freelance journalist whose articles and translations have appeared in The Wall Street Journal Asia, the Chicago Tribune, the South China Morning Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Paris Review.

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 037542542X
• ISBN 13: 9780375425424
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320