Wild kids
Subtitle: two novels about growing up
By: Chang Ta-chun ; translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry
Contributors: Zhang, Dachun, 1957-; Berry, Michael
Series: Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Zhang, Dachun, -- 1957- -- Translations into English
Work titles: Ye hai zi.
Description: "In Wild Child, fourteen-year-old Hou Shichun drops out of school, runs away from home, and descends into the Taiwanese underworld, where he encounters an oddball assortment of similarly lost adolescents in desperate circumstances. This novel will inevitably invite comparisons with the classic The Catcher in the Rye, but unlike Holden Caulfield, Hou isn't given any second chances. With characteristic frankness and irony, Chang's teenagers bear witness to a new form of cultural and spiritual bankruptcy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: My kid sister; title: Wild child