The Maverick Pig
$13.50
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo’s essays established him as one of China’s most popular - and subversive - writers. From the political power of silence to the irrepressible spirit of a pig he met while working in a commune, these reflections on life and literature in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution provide a rare glimpse of a fearless satirical genius.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241747315 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241747317 |
| Author: | Wang Xiaobo |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 73g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
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About The Author
Wang Xiaobo
Wang Xiaobo was born in 1952. From 1968 to 1970, he worked on a farm in Yunnan, China, as an ‘educated’ youth. He published Golden Age in 1992, first in Taiwan, but publication in China soon followed, where it was an immediate success, still topping bestseller lists today. Wang Xiaobo died of a heart attack in 1997, at the age of forty-four.
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