Author: Yiyun Li
Translator: Kyung-Ah Song
Publisher: Hak Go Jae
360 pages/ 193*135mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. A beautifully executed debut collection of 10 stories
explores the ravages of the Cultural Revolution on modern Chinese, both in China
and America. "Extra" portrays the grim plight of Granny Lin, an elderly widow
without a pension, whose job as a maid at a boarding school outside Beijing
leads to a surprising friendship with one of her young charges, Kang. Li deftly
weaves a political message into her human portraits: young Kang, the son of a
powerful man and his now "disfavored" first wife, is an "extra", that is, as
useless in the new society as Granny Lin has become. A hollowed-out recluse in
the collective apartment block of "Death Is Not a Bad Joke If Told the Right
Way," Mr. Pang, once denounced by his work colleagues as being "a dog son of the
evil landlord class", still appears daily at a job where he is no longer even
paid, and spends his home life counting grains of rice on his chopsticks. Even
the charmed fatherless boy of "Immortality," his face so like Chairman Mao's
that he's chosen to be the dictator's impersonator after Mao's death, falls from
favor eventually, ending his days as a self-castrated parasite. These are
powerful stories that encapsulate tidily epic grief and longing.
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