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There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
Naiqian Cao
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Description for There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
Hardback. Translator(s): Balcom, John. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Set among a remote cluster of cave dwellings in Shanxi province, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is a genre-defying expose of rural communism. In a series of vivid, interlocking vignettes, several narrators speak of adultery, bestiality, incest, and vice, revealing the consequences of desire in a world of necessity. The Wen Clan Caves are based on an isolated village where the author, Cao Naiqian, lived during the Cultural Revolution. The land is hard and unforgiving and the people suffer in poverty and ignorance. Through the individual perspectives of the Wen Clan ... Read more
Set among a remote cluster of cave dwellings in Shanxi province, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is a genre-defying expose of rural communism. In a series of vivid, interlocking vignettes, several narrators speak of adultery, bestiality, incest, and vice, revealing the consequences of desire in a world of necessity. The Wen Clan Caves are based on an isolated village where the author, Cao Naiqian, lived during the Cultural Revolution. The land is hard and unforgiving and the people suffer in poverty and ignorance. Through the individual perspectives of the Wen Clan ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148108
SKU
V9780231148108
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About Naiqian Cao
Cao Naiqian was born in Shanxi in 1949. Since 1972, he has worked as a police detective in the Public Security Bureau of Datong City, Shanxi. Cao Naiqian began writing in 1986 at the age of thirty-seven, and his works have been translated into several languages. They include The Loneliness of Buddha, The Last Village, and There's Nothing I Can ... Read more
Reviews for There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
Cao examines the often barbaric side of human nature in the face of stark poverty and extreme necessity. Publishers Weekly