Family Catastrophe - A Modernist Novel

Set in post-1949 Taiwan, this novel is an intimate revelation of a family's journey to catastrophe. The rather of the all-too-ordinary Fan family suddenly flees from home; his son, Fan Yeh, sets off to search for him but is repeatedly unsuccessful, returning alone to the anxiously waiting mother. As it tracks Fan Yeh's fruitless search, Wang Wen-hsing's innovative narrative unfolds the history of this family, depicting relationships both tender and brutal and divulging secrets of poverty and abuse, love and hate.

Product details

• Authors: Wen-Hsing Wang, Wang Wen-hsing, Wang Wen-hsing
• Assisted by: Susan Wan Dolling (Translation)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1995
• EAN: 9780824817107
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-1710-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Fiction from Modern China; Fiction from Modern China S.; Fiction from modern China
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature