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Golden Age: A Novel

By Wang Xiaobo, Yan Yan (Translator)
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By Wang Xiaobo, Yan Yan (Translator)
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"Like a Chinese Kurt Vonnegut. By turns lyrical and satirical, Wang Xiaobo's sexual comedies set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution are as improbable as that genre sounds. His long overdue publication in English comes as a gift. Golden Age is funny and brave and profound."
—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick

"At the time Wang was writing, novels about the Cultural Revolution tended to be fairly conventional tales of how good people suffered nobly during this decade of madness. The system...

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FictionLiteratureWorld FictionChinese Fiction20th Century Chinese Fiction