"Ninth Building" is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about—the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate situations. Jeremy Tiang’s enthralling translation of this important work of fiction was awarded a PEN/Heim Grant.
Ninth Building
ISBN: 1739822501
ISBN 13: 9781739822507
Publication Date: May 16, 2022
Publisher: Honford Star
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Authors: Zou Jingzhi, Jeremy Tiang
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