The seventh day
Yu, Hua, 1960-2015
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Yang Fei was born on a moving train, lost by his mother, adopted by a young railway worker, raised with simplicity and love - utterly unprepared for the changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation ceaselessly reinventing itself. At 41, he meets an unceremonious death, and lacking the money for a burial plot, must roam the afterworld aimlessly. There, over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of people he's lost, and as he retraces the path of his life, we meet an extraordinary cast of characters: his adoptive father, beautiful ex-wife, neighbours who perished in the demolition of their homes.
Main title:
The seventh day / Yu Hua ; translated from the Chinese by Allan H. Barr.
Author:
Yu, Hua, 1960-, authorBarr, Allan Hepburn, translator
Imprint:
Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, 2015.
Collation:
213 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon Books.
ISBN:
9781922182890 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
895.136
Language:
EnglishChinese
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BRN:
1869507
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