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Grass soup
- Title
- Grass soup / Zhang Xianliang ; translated from the Chinese by Martha Avery.
- Author
- Zhang, Xianliang, 1936-2014.
- Publication
- Boston : D.R. Godine, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PL2837.H762 F3613 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vi, 247 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Zhang Xianliang, one of China's greatest living writers, spent twenty-two years in Chinese prisons and labor camps until his "rehabilitation" in 1979. Through most of those years he kept a diary of his experiences. Because any detail would have meant the diary's destruction and Zhang's execution, the entries were curt and cryptic; sometimes entire days were condensed into two or three words.
- This is a frightening portrait of how a major civilization can bring itself to its knees by mass complicity (it would have been absurdly easy to escape from the camp, yet no prisoner ever thought to do so), told with a deft matter-of-factness that only highlights the horror. At the same time, Zhang does not ignore the minor kindnesses and moments of human recognition that dotted his prison years.
- Uniform Title
- Fan nao jiu shi zhi hui. English
- Alternative Title
- Fan nao jiu shi zhi hui.
- ISBN
- 1567920306 (hc) :
- LCCN
- 95015867
- OCLC
- 32391385
- ocm32391385
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries