The Taste of Apples
Contributors: Goldblatt, Howard
Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan; Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780231505239
Description: From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius.In ""The Two Sign Painters,"" TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. ""His Son's Big Doll"" introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in ""Xiaoqi's Cap"" a dissatisfie