The Noodle Maker

Ma Jian

ISBN 10: 0701176059 / ISBN 13: 9780701176051

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2004

About this Item

A fine unread 1st impression of a paperback original. Signed in Chinese and English and dated [2019.6.1st] by the author and also signed by the translator on the title page. Top edge yellowing.

Seller Inventory # 008863

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Noodle Maker
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701176059
• ISBN 13: 9780701176051
• Binding: Paperback Original
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author & Translator
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction In Translation

About this title

Synopsis

Book by Jian, Ma

From the Inside Flap

From the award-winning author of Red Dust comes a virtuoso piece of "red humour" -- a darkly funny novel about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China.
Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends -- one of them tortured by his "art," the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China. Over the course of one especially gastronomic evening, the writer starts to complain about his latest Party commission: the story of an ordinary soldier who sacrifices his life to the revolutionary cause. This is not the novel he wants to write, he tells his friend. Inside his head lives an unwritten book about the people he knows or sees everyday on the streets -- people whose lives are far more representative of the world in which he lives.