Notes of a desolate man / by Chu T'ien-wen ; translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
Notes of a desolate man / by Chu T'ien-wen ; translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
Notes of a desolate man / by Chu T'ien-wen ; translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University press, c1999.
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N895.1352/C559.11/1
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English
Chinese
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Physical content
viii, 169 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University press, c1999.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to com...
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Notes of a desolate man / by Chu T'ien-wen ; translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
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Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan.
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Translated from the Chinese.
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c1999.
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N895.1352/C559.11/1
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74VvWkNg2qaZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvWkNg2qaZ
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ISBN
0231116098 (pbk.)
023111608X
023111608X (alk. paper)
023111608X :
9780231116091 (pbk.)
DDC
895.1352
MMS ID
991012050799702626
