Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385525923 (0385525923)
ASIN: 0385525923
Publish date: 2008-08-05
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Pages no: 167
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
China,
Chinese Literature,
Fiction
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth offers a glimpse into the life of a 20-something Chinese woman trying to survive in the city of Beijing. This is a rather bare statement and does not do justice to what the book truly contains. It's a peek into the psyche of someone who is just like you and me ex...
NARRATIVE STYLE AND STRUCTUREAs the title implies, this is a fragmentary account of youthful ambition, rather than a conventional novel. It is deliberately raw and unpolished: fast-paced, often angry and slightly stilted. Some of the fragment titles are amusingly banal, such as "Fenfang sits on the ...
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