Ruined City: A Novel (Volume 5) (Chinese Literature Today Book Series)

Jia Pingwa introduces readers to his novel's antihero Zhuang Zhidie, a famous contemporary writer and an infamous lothario, who struggles with his own exacting artistic and literary standards, his celebrity", and his inevitable disappointment in his various sexual liaisons. A cautionary tale of what it means to live in rapidly-changing China and the trappings of nostalgia, an unrequited romanticism for China's pre-modern, rural past" --

• | Author: Pingwa Jia
• | Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 27, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 536 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0806151730
• | ISBN-13: 9780806151731