Ruined city
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jia Pingwa ; translated by Howard Goldblatt
Contributors: Goldblatt, Howard, 1939- translator
Series: Chinese literature today book series -- volume 5; Chinese literature today book series -- v. 5.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780806151731
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Authors; Fiction
Work titles: Fei du
Description: "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" --
Notes: Published in Chinese as Fei du (Xianggang : Tian di tu shu you xian gong si ; Jiulong : Fa xing Li tong tu shu you xian gong si, 1993).

Translated from the Chinese of: Fei du.