Ninth Building

Author: Zou Jingzhi

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Price : $33.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781948830751
Publisher : Open Letter
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Publication date : 30 June 2023
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Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experiencegrowing 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 talkedabout--the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humour thataccompanies such desperate situations.

Jeremy Tiang's enthralling translation of this importantwork of fiction was awarded a PEN/Heim Grant.