Golden Age
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Brian Nishii
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Written by:
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Wang Xiaobo
About this listen
Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history.
Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his crimes, but he instead takes it upon himself to write a modernist literary tract. Later, as a lecturer at a chaotic, newly built university, Wang Er navigates the bureaucratic maze of 1980’s China, boldly writing about the Cultural Revolution’s impact on his life and those around him. Finally, alone and humbled, Wang Er must come to terms with the banality of his own existence.
But what makes this novel both hilarious and important is Xiaobo’s use of the awkwardness of sex as a metaphor for all that occurred during the Cultural Revolution. This achievement was revolutionary in China and places Golden Age in the great pantheon of novels that argue against governmental control.
A leading icon of his generation, Wang Xiaobo’s cerebral and sarcastic narrative is a reflection on the failures of individuals and the enormous political, social, and personal changes in twentieth-century China.
©2022 Wang Xiaobo. English translation © 2022 by Yan Yan (P)2022 Blackstone PublishingWhat listeners say about Golden Age
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- Lavanya
- 06-07-24
The sex scenes were a struggle session upon themselves.
I get that Xiaobo was inspired by the rough and tumble of vernacular, country humour and bawdy satire used to convey deep philosophical stuff. But there’s something as being too inspired.
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