Geling Yan: Criminal Lu Yanshi, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Criminal Lu Yanshi
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- Verlag:
- New Song Media GmbH, 10/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783910769120
- Artikelnummer:
- 12506007
- Umfang:
- 536 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 769 g
- Maße:
- 210 x 148 mm
- Stärke:
- 31 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 15.10.2025
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Criminal Lu Yanshi relates the life and times of a Chinese intellectual in the 20th Century. Lu Yanshi, a prodigy from a wealthy Shanghai family, earns a Ph. D. in the United States and sows his wild oats there but cannot escape his stifling social milieu, his overbearing stepmother and his forced marriage to her niece. As war and revolution engulf China, Lu Yanshi speaks out for intellectual integrity and freedom of thought - and pays the price for it in prison and labor camp. While incarcerated, he looks back on his life and realizes that his spurned wife was the true love of his life, and he longs to return to her.
This novel is based on the life experiences of the author's paternal grandfather and maternal step-grandfather. It served as the inspiration for two films by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou: Coming Home and One Second.
This novel sold over a million copies in its original Chinese edition plus Japanese and Korean translations. The renowned artist Ai Weiwei designed the front cover for this English-language edition.
Biografie
Geling Yan was born in Shanghai and began writing in the late 1970s as a journalist. Her first novel was published in China in 1985. Following the Tiananmen Square massacre, she left China for the United States. She lives in San Francisco and Africa.
