Summary
‘Playful and wonderfully dark, The Noodle Maker confirms Ma Jian as a Chinese Kundera. The funniest book I’ve read in a long time’ Philip MarsdenEvery week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his ‘art’, the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China.Over the course of one especially gastronomic evening, the writer starts to complain about his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099459064 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009945906X |
| Author: | Ma Jian, Flora Drew |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
Compelling, inventive and bleakly funny
Compelling, inventive and bleakly funny * Big Issue *
Deep black humour…owes a debt to Italo Calvino * Daily Telegraph *
Ma’s writing shines a light that is both humane and angry into some of the dustiest corners of a closed and often forgotten society * Observer *
Playful and wonderfully dark…a Chinese Kundera – Philip Marsden
About The Author
Ma Jian
Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China. He is the author of seven novels, a travel memoir, three story collections and two essay collections. He has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since the publication of his first book in 1987, all his work has been banned in China. He now lives in exile in London
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