Golden Age

''Wang Xiaobo is a truly unique writer, and there are very few writers like him'' Ai Weiwei

''Fills the reader with aching poignancy, and yet makes them want to laugh out loud'' Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans

Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing his virginity. His dreams come true in the shape of the beautiful doctor Cheng Qinyang. So begins the riotously funny story of their illicit love affair, the Party officials who enjoy their forced confessions a little too much, and Wang''s life under the Communist regime: his misadventures as a biology lecturer in a Beijing university, and his entanglements with family, friends and lovers. Golden Age is an explosive, subversive, wild and hilarious satire, featuring one of literature''s great protagonists, a sensation when it was published in the 1990s and beloved today.<>

About the author

Wang Xiaobo was born in 1952. From 1968 to 1970, he worked on a farm in Yunnan, China, as an 'educated' youth. He published Golden Age in 1992, first in Taiwan, but publication in China soon followed, where it was an immediate success, still topping bestseller lists today. Wang Xiaobo died of a heart attack in 1997, at the age of forty-four.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaobo Wang, Wang Xiaobo
• Assisted by: Yan Yan (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.04.2024
• EAN: 9780241634226
• ISBN: 978-0-241-63422-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); China, FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Politics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, FICTION / World Literature / China / 20th Century