Ruined City: A Novel (Chinese Literature Today Book Series)

✍ Scribed by Pingwa, Jia; Goldblatt, Howard

• Book ID: 108789633
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 387 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780806151731

✦ Synopsis

Overview: When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China’s State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author Jia Pingwa’s vivid portrayal of contemporary China’s social and economic transformation has become a classic, viewed by critics and scholars of Chinese literature as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Howard Goldblatt’s deft translation now gives English-speaking readers their first chance to enjoy this masterpiece of social satire by one of China’s most provocative writers.