The Crazed

Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang''s daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family... Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. Lyrical and heart-breaking, The Crazed is an incisive portrait of modern Chinese society.

Product details

• Authors: Ha Jin
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2003
• EAN: 9780099444886
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944488-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, FICTION / Political, Narrative theme: Politics, c 1980 to c 1989, FICTION / World Literature / China / 21st Century