Chaos and All That: An Irreverent Novel (Fiction from Modern China, 3) - Hardcover

Sola, Liu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082481617X ISBN 13: 9780824816179

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 1994

Synopsis

This brilliant little novel, set against the backdrop of post-Mao China, juxtaposes recollections of childhood, pet ownership, and marriage with discussions of art, sex, and murder, weaving together an absurdist tapestry that is the inner life of the novel’s felicitously named protagonist, Huang Haha. Subversive, iconoclastic, and wholly irreverent.

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From the Back Cover:

This brilliant little novel, set against the backdrop of post-Mao China, juxtaposes recollections of childhood, pet ownership, and marriage with discussions of art, sex, and murder, weaving together an absurdist tapestry that is the inner life of the novel's felicitously named protagonist, Huang Haha. Deftly manipulating language and point of view, author Liu Sola combines a range of different voices from past and present, binding the resulting clash of disparate narrative and linguistic elements together with a rollicking sense of the absurd. Subversive, iconoclastic, and wholly irreverent, this novel was published in Hong Kong in 1991 but has yet to appear in China.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 082481617X
• ISBN 13: 9780824816179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144