Can I read A Private Life (Weatherhead Books on Asia) on EtoBox?

A Private Life (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Ran Chen; John Howard-Gibbon; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Private Life (Weatherhead Books on Asia) about?

From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, __A Private Life__ exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a young woman growing up during a time of intense social and political upheaval. At the age of twenty-six, Ni Niuniu has come to accept pain and loss. She has suffered the death of her mother and a close friend and neighbor, Mrs. Ho. She has long been estranged from her tyrannical father, while her boyfriend—a brilliant and handsome poet named Yin Nan—was forced to flee the country. She has survived a disturbing affair with a former teacher, a mental breakdown that left her in a mental institution for two years, and a stray bullet that tore through the flesh of her left leg. Now living in complete seclusion, Niuniu shuns a world that seems incapable of accepting her and instead spends her days wandering in vivid, dreamlike reveries where her fractured recollections and wild fantasies merge with her inescapable feelings of melancholy and loneliness. Yet this eccentric young woman—caught betwe

Who reads A Private Life (Weatherhead Books on Asia)?

Author

Ran Chen; John Howard-Gibbon; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press Columbia University Press [distributor

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231506915

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14