A Private Life
Contributors: John Howard-Gibbon (Translator)
Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: May 3, 2004
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780231131964
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Asian - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Women Authors; 1962-; Chen, Ran,; Translations into English
First sentence: As the days and months pass, I am stifled beneath the bits and pieces of time and memory that settle thickly upon my body and penetrate the pulse of my consciousness.
Description: From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a young woman growing up during a time of intense social and political upheaval. At the age of twenty-six, Ni Niuniu has come to accept pain and loss. She has suffered the death of her mother and a close friend and neighbor, Mrs. Ho. She has long been estranged from her tyrannical fath.