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Description: An NYRB Classics Original Set in the early years of Mao's China Naked Earth is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities of revolutionary change. Liu Ch an and Su Nan meet in the countryside after volunteering to assist in the new land reform program. Eager to build a more just society they are puzzled and shocked by the brutality barely disguised corruption and ruthless careerism they discover but then quickly silenced by the barrage of propaganda and public criticism that is directed at anyone who appears to doubt a righteous cause. Joined together by the secret of their common dismay they remain in touch when Liu departs to work on a newspaper in Peking where Su Nan eventually also moves. Something like love begins to grow between them but then a new round of purges sweeps through the revolutionary ranks. One of the greatest and most loved of modern Chinese writers Eileen Chang illuminates the dark corners of the human existence with a style of disorienting beauty. Naked Earth unavailable in English for more than fifty years is a harrowing tale of perverted ideals damaged souls deepest loneliness and terror.
Title: Naked Earth
Author(s): Link Perry
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590178348
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 6/16/2015
Category: Politics & Government
Description: An NYRB Classics Original Set in the early years of Mao's China Naked Earth is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities of revolutionary change. Liu Ch an and Su Nan meet in the countryside after volunteering to assist in the new land reform program. Eager to build a more just society they are puzzled and shocked by the brutality barely disguised corruption and ruthless careerism they discover but then quickly silenced by the barrage of propaganda and public criticism that is directed at anyone who appears to doubt a righteous cause. Joined together by the secret of their common dismay they remain in touch when Liu departs to work on a newspaper in Peking where Su Nan eventually also moves. Something like love begins to grow between them but then a new round of purges sweeps through the revolutionary ranks. One of the greatest and most loved of modern Chinese writers Eileen Chang illuminates the dark corners of the human existence with a style of disorienting beauty. Naked Earth unavailable in English for more than fifty years is a harrowing tale of perverted ideals damaged souls deepest loneliness and terror.
Title: Naked Earth
Author(s): Link Perry
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590178348
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 6/16/2015
Category: Politics & Government