by Ma Jian · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099459064
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«The Noodle Maker» is Ma Jian's black comedy novel, published by Vintage in paperback (192 pages, in English).
A propaganda writer and a blood donor dine together every week; the former laments the novel he must write for the party and wishes to narrate the lives of ordinary people in contemporary China. With black humour, the work written after the Tiananmen massacre portrays the contradictions and cruelties of Chinese society.
English translation of a text originally written in Chinese. Published on 5 May 2005.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary narrative, interested in present-day China and black humour.
