The Noodle Maker

The Noodle Maker
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9781429924023
ISBN-13 : 1429924020
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Book Synopsis The Noodle Maker by : Ma Jian

Download or read book The Noodle Maker written by Ma Jian and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ma Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China. Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries, while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. Extraordinary characters inspire him, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they are balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker. Ma Jian's satirical masterpiece allows us a humorous, yet profound, glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.


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