Sijie Dai
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English
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At the height of Mao's infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for "re-education." The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin--as well as, before long, the...
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English
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After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to introduce the blessings of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China. But it is his hidden purpose--to liberate his university sweetheart, now a political prisoner--that leads him to the sadistic local magistrate, Judge Di. The price of the Communist bureaucrat's clemency? A virgin maiden. And so our middle-aged hero Muo, a Westernized romantic and sexual innocent himself, sets off...
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Français
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"Dans un village proche de la ville côtière de Putian, en Chine méridionale, au début du vingtième siècle, Yong Sheng est le fils d'un menuisier-charpentier qui fabrique des sifflets pour colombes réputés. Les habitants raffolent de ces sifflets qui, accrochés aux rémiges des oiseaux, font entendre de merveilleuses symphonies en tournant au-dessus des maisons. Placé en pension chez un pasteur américain, le jeune Yong Sheng va suivre l'enseignement...
Author
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
"1968, palais du Potala au Tibet. L'ancienne demeure du dalaï-lama est occupée par une petite troupe de très jeunes gardes rouges fanatisés, étudiants à l'école des beaux-arts, menés par un garçon particulièrement cruel, «le Loup». Dans les anciennes écuries du palais, Bstan Pa, ancien peintre du dalaï-lama, est retenu prisonnier. Le Loup veut lui faire avouer sous la torture ses crimes contre-révolutionnaires. Alors que les jeunes...
14) Shi meng ren
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Series
Publisher
Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2006
Language
中文
Description
Chinese edition of "Le Complexe de Di", English title Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch is about a traveling Freudian dream interpreter in China trying to win the release of his girlfriend from prison. Winner of the 2003 French Prix Femina.
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Series
Letras de bolsillo) volume 207
Publisher
Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China's infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation.
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Series
Brigitte-Buch-Edition die Liebesromane volume Bd. 2
Publisher
Gruner + Jahr
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Deutsch
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
中文
Description
In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two university students, Luo and Ma, are sent to a mountain mining village as part of their reeducation duty to purge them of their classical western oriented education. Amid the backbreaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the two boys find that music, and the presence of the beautiful local young women are the only pleasant things in their miserable life. However, none...
