142 pp. May 1994
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-1651-3, $13.99
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-1617-9, $24.00
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Chaos and All That: An Irreverent Novel
by Liu Sola
trans. by Richard King
Fiction from Modern China
Winner of the 1991 British Comparative Literature Association Translation Competition for Chinese
“A brilliant kaleidoscope drawn from colorful fragments of widely divergent worlds.... A literate novel, rich with references to Chinese and Western literature.” —Publishers Weekly
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.
Read an excerpt (PDF).
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