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Available
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Publication
NYRB Classics (2015), Paperback, 400 pages
Description
An NYRB Classics OriginalSet in the early years of Maos China, Naked Earth is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities of revolutionary change. Liu Chuan and Su Nan meet in the countryside after volunteering to assist in the new land reform program.
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LibraryThing member susanbooks
Really good, but put-downable at places. Then you get to the last chapter and it all becomes devastating. Incredible. This rivals Orwell's 1984 in showing how totalitarianism destroys the soul. Chang was a genius.
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Language
Original language
Chinese
Original publication date
1954
ISBN
1590178343 / 9781590178348