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The Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo
The Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo
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Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House Producer: New Classics Amber / New Classics Culture Publishing Year: 2017-4
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【Content Introduction】
Before I wrote The Golden Age, I never thought I wrote well. - Wang Xiaobo
This book includes three of Wang Xiaobo's famous novels, "The Golden Age", "At Thirty", and "Like Water Flowing Years". "The Golden Age" won the 13th United Daily News Literary Award for Novella! The story is set in the 1970s and 1980s, positively describing the pursuit of "sex" and "freedom", reflecting on the current state of human existence, and highlighting the freedom and authenticity of human nature. Wang Xiaobo said: "Writing "The Golden Age" took me a lot of time and talent. It is very delicate and I have poured in many of my ideas about novels."
【Editor's recommendation】
Wang Xiaobo's masterpiece! Won the 13th Taiwan United Daily News Literature Award for Novella, and was selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly. Specially included are precious manuscripts!
【Awards】
The 13th United Daily News Literature Award for Novella
About the Author
Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997)
Born in Beijing in 1952. Went to Yunnan to work as a sent-down youth in 1968. Later transferred to Shandong, where he worked as a private teacher. In 1973, he became a worker in Beijing.
He was admitted to Renmin University of China in 1978 and obtained a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986. He returned to China in 1988 and taught at Peking University and Renmin University of China. He resigned in 1992 and became a freelance writer.
He died of illness in Beijing on April 11, 1997.
Among contemporary Chinese writers, no one has ever received as much praise and admiration as he has, and no one has as many young people willing to serve as his "running dogs" as he has. His novels have contributed to the unprecedented reading pleasure of modern Chinese novels for readers, and he has allowed people to see a completely different and different world; his essays, full of wisdom and humor, have opened a path to wisdom and rationality for readers, and have been regarded as spiritual idols by generations of young people.
He is known as the Joyce and Kafka of China, and is also a mainland Chinese writer who has twice won the "Taiwan United Daily News Literature Award for Novella", an important award in the world of Chinese literature.
His representative works include the essay collection "The Silent Majority", the novels "The Golden Age" and "Love in the Revolutionary Period". "The Golden Age" and "The Future World" won the 13th and 16th "United Daily News" Literature Award for Novella respectively; the film script "East Palace, West Palace" won the Best Screenplay Award at the Argentina International Film Festival.
