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Half of Man Is Woman
by Xianliang, Zhang; (Translated by Martha Avery)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0393025861
- ISBN 13
- 9780393025866
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (17.95). Illustrated with 3 maps and a manuscript facsimile. From the Dust Jacket: "As the Cultural Revolution rages, a gulag of labor camps in China's remote countryside teaches 'capitalist roaders' and criminals alike 'reform through labor.' There Zhang, a 'rightist' poet meets and falls in love with Huang, a peasant woman jailed for promiscuity... Their relationship becomes the lens in which we see, and feel, the warping effects of the Cultural Revolution on ordinary people... The first novel of China's gulag to appear in the West, it was published in China in late 1985 to great popular enthusiasm, and much controversy because of its unaccustomed frankness about sex." "For the Western reader, there is much to admire in Half of Man Is Woman. There are extraordinarily lyrical descriptions of the landscape of north-western China; vivid portraits of camp inmates and peasants as they live their daily lives; and a poignant portrait of a love affair, wrought out of impossible circumstances, doomed to failure." . First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xvii, 285pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010101
- Title
- Half of Man Is Woman
- Author
- Xianliang, Zhang; (Translated by Martha Avery)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393025861
- ISBN 13
- 9780393025866
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo. xvii, 285pp
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