Ma Jian: The Noodle Maker, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Zwei Freunde treffen sich wöchentlich zum Dinner: ein professioneller Blutspender und ein Verfasser politischer Propaganda. Doch der Autor will keine Propaganda mehr schreiben, sondern einen Roman: über das wirkliche Leben im heutigen China, über die Menschen, die er täglich auf der Straße beobachtet. 'Playful and wonderfully dark, The Noodle Maker confirms Ma Jian as a Chinese Kundera. The funniest book I've read in a long time' Philip Marsden

Beschreibung

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his 'art', the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China.

Over the course of one especially gastronomic evening, the writer starts to complain about his latest Party commission: the story of an ordinary soldier who sacrifices his life to the revolutionary cause. This is not the novel he wants to write, he tells his friend. Inside his head lives an unwritten book about the people he knows or sees everyday on the streets - people who lives are far more representative of the world in which he lives...

Klappentext

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. Inside his head lives an unwritten book about the people he knows or sees everyday on the streets - people who lives are far more representative of the world in which he lives...