By Ha Jin
ISBN-10: 0307428354
ISBN-13: 9780307428356
A manhattan occasions remarkable Book
A Washington publish, la instances, and San Jose Mercury information top ebook of the Year
Ha Jin's seismically strong new novel is right away an unblinking investigate the bell jar of communist chinese language society and a portrait of the everlasting compromises and deceptions of the human kingdom. whilst the venerable professor Yang, a instructor of literature at a provincial college, has a stroke, his scholar Jian Wan is assigned to take care of him. because the dutiful Jian plans to marry his mentor's attractive, icy daughter, the task calls for delicacy. simply how a lot delicacy turns into transparent while Yang starts to rave.
Are those simply the outpourings of a damaged brain, or is Yang conversing the truth--about his family members, his colleagues, and his life's paintings? and should bearing witness to the reality turn out breaking terrible Jian's middle? Combining heat and intimacy with an unsparing social imaginative and prescient, The Crazed is Ha Jin's so much spell binding booklet to this point.
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