Someone to Talk to - A Novel

Liu Zhenyun is the author of over a dozen novels, including I Did Not Kill My Husband and The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon.

Howard Goldblatt is a translator of dozens of works of Chinese literature, including those of Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan.

Sylvia Li-Chun Lin is an award-winning translator of Chinese literature.

List of contents

Series Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas  vii
Part I. Leaving Yanjin
Chapter 1. 3
Chapter 2. 10
Chapter 3.  23
Chapter 4.  35
Chapter 5.  45
Chapter 6. 54
Chapter 7. 64
Chapter 8. 78
Chapter 9. 98
Chapter 10. 116
Chapter 11. 137
Chapter 12. 160
Chapter 13.  185
Chapter 14.  202
Part II. Returning to Yanjin
Chapter 1.  227
Chapter 2.  243
Chapter 3.  254
Chapter 4.  267
Chapter 5.  277
Chapter 6. 289
Chapter 7.  306
Chapter 8.  325
Chapter 9.  339
Chapter 10.  351

About the author

Liu Zhenyun

Summary

Originally published in China in 2009 and appearing in English for the first time, Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning Someone to Talk To follows two men living seventy years apart who in their loneliness and struggle to find meaningful personal connections highlight the contours of everyday life in pre- and post-Mao China.

Product details

• Authors: Zhenyun Liu, Zhenyun/ Goldblatt Liu, Liu Zhenyun
• Assisted by: Howard Goldblatt (Translation), Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Translation), Sylvia Li Lin (Translation), Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780822370680
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-7068-0
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Sinotheory; Sinotheory
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature