Please Don't Call Me Human by Wang Shuo
Stephen King calledWang Shuo's stupendous debut novel Playing for Thrills 'perhaps the most brilliantly entertaining hardboiled novel of the 90's...Raymond Chandler crossed with Bruce Lee.' Now Wang Shuo, easily China's coolest and most popular novelist, applies his genius for satire and cultural irreverence to one of the world's sacred rituals, the Olympic games. In Please Don't Call me Human, he imagines an Olympics where nations compete not on the basis of athletic prowess, but on their citizens' capacity for humiliation - and China is determined to win at any cost. The novel's anti-hero is a slacker pedicab driver from Beijing, a degenerate nihilist who rips off his own face in order to win the gold for China. Banned in China for its 'rudeness' and 'vulgarity', this astonishing, tripped-out novel is filled with the kind of word play and outlandish antics that have earned Wang Shuo his own genre, 'hooligan literature'.
his most scathingly satirical -- Catherine Sampson * The Guardian *
Wang Shuo is the real thing, and the stuff that comes out of his head is the stuff of true satire -- Nicholas Lezard * The Guardian *
Fast, funny and relentless in its quest for ultimate cool * Big Issue *
Wang Shuo is the real thing, and the stuff that comes out of his head is the stuff of true satire -- Nicholas Lezard * The Guardian *
Fast, funny and relentless in its quest for ultimate cool * Big Issue *
Wang Shuo was born in Nanjing in 1958 and moved with his family to Beijing a year later. After his parents were sent to the countryside during Mao's Cultural Revolution, he and his brother, a pair of protected military brats, had the run of Beijing. It proved to be a good training for Wang's adolescent years, when he skipped school, was involved in petty crimes, street fights, and girl chasing, even landing in jail on at least one occasion.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842431627 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842431625 |
| Title | Please Don't Call Me Human |
| Author | Wang Shuo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Year published | 2008-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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