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Naked earth

Zhang, Ailing, author

Overview

\"After leaving the Mainland for Hong Kong in 1952, Eileen Chang was commissioned by the United States Information Service to write two books, one of which was her magnificent novel Naked Earth. Far from being a simplistic exercise in anti-Communist propaganda (two previous novels Chang wrote were pro-Communist), Naked Earth is a powerfully moving, Balzacian tale that follows two young students, Liu Ch'uen and Su Nan, who fall in love at a time when, as Chang writes, \"the whole country lay stretched out like an open palm, ready to close around any one person at any minute.\" Mao's land reform movement is in full force, and Liu and Su Nan are sent to a farm to help the peasants take over the fields. The work is hard, the nights long, and slowly it becomes clear that spies abound. Both Liu and Su Nan harbor festering secrets that are pulling them apart and Liu is eventually imprisoned by his enemies and sent to fight on the Korean front. A romance, a thrilling drama, a tragedy, Naked Earth is a stunning work of twentieth-century fiction by one of China's most revered modern novelists\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Subject: Land reform China History Fiction. / China History 20th century Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781590178348, 1590178343

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PL2837.E35 C35513 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE