num_pages: 336
description: Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family...Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. Lyrical and heart-breaking, The Crazed is an incisive portrait of modern Chinese society.
language: English
title: The Crazed
titlecomplete: The Crazed
genres: Asia, Politics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Asian Literature, Literature, Chinese Literature, China, Fiction
ratings_count: 2387
publisher: Random House