Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: FS.E DR Jian / College 1a - Fremdsprachen-Bibliothek	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Summary: From the award-winning author of "Red Dust", comes a virtuoso piece of "Red Humour" - a darkly funny novel about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his 'art', the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China. Over the course of one especially gastronomic evening, the writer starts to complain about his latest Party commission: the story of an ordinary soldier who sacrifices his life to the revolutionary cause. This is not the novel he wants to write, he tells his friend. Inside his head lives an unwritten book about the people he knows or sees everyday on the streets - people who lives are far more representative of the world in which he lives. 'A beautiful, disturbing read - a new Wild Swans' - "Observer". 'If you have time to read only one book on China this year, choose "Red Dust"' - "Financial Times". 'His narrative is blessed with a prose style that compresses meaning as succinctly as Chinese calligraphy. It opens windows on landscapes small and vast, all still largely unobserved and unknown to Westerners' - "The Times".Review: "One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingijan, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. "The Noodle Maker is hugely entertaining and deeply serious. It's something to celebrate." Jonathan Safran Foer, author of "Everything Is IlluminatedBiography: Ma Jian left Beijing for Hong Kong in 1987, shortly before his books were banned in China. After the hand-over of Hong Kong he moved to Germany and then London, where he now lives. His acclaimed book Red Dust won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2002.