Ninth Building

Name: Ninth Building
Author: Zou Jingzhi
ISBN: 9781739822514

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Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about—the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate situations. Jeremy Tiang's translation of this work was awarded a PEN/Heim Grant.

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