
"Like a Chinese Kurt Vonnegut. By turns lyrical and satirical, Wang Xiaobo's sexual comedies set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution are as improbable as that genre sounds. His long overdue publication in English comes as a gift. Golden Age is funny and brave and...
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This English translation previously published by: New York: Astra House, [2022].

Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history. Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his...
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Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history. Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his...