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Big Breasts and Wide Hips
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Big Breasts and Wide Hips

A Novel
BookPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF29.90

Description

China's most important contemporary literary voice delivers a portrait of twentieth-century China full of historical sweep and earthy exuberance.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-61145-343-0
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (UK)
Publishing date15/01/2012
SeriesArcade Classics
Pages552 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 165 mm, Height 235 mm, Thickness 33 mm
Weight658 g
Article no.12073120
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.11309063
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

Howard Goldblatt is a literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction from mainland China and Taiwan, including Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan, five of whose works are published by Arcade (The Garlic Ballads; The Republic of Wine; Big Breasts and Wide Hips; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh). He has also translated works by Liu Zhenyun (I Did Not Kill My Husband; The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon; Remembering 1942, which are published by Arcade), Huang Chunming (The Taste of Apples), and Chen Ruoxi (The Execution of Mayor Yin). He taught modern Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century. He lives in Lafayette, Colorado.