Title: The crazed
Description: Ha Jin's seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke, his student Jian Wan is assigned to care for him. Since the dutiful Jian plans to marry his mentor's beautiful, icy daughter, the job requires delicacy. Just how much delicacy becomes clear when Yang begins to rave.
Subjects: Fiction, Social conditions, Teacher-student relationships, Cerebrovascular disease, Patients, Graduate students, College teachers, Politicians, Literature teachers, Yang (Fictitious character), Jian Wan (Fictitious character), Fiction, political, Fiction, psychological, China, fiction, College teachers, fiction
Places: China
Time periods: 1976-2000