Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family...
Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. Lyrical and heart-breaking, The Crazed is an incisive portrait of modern Chinese society.
| ISBN: | 9780099444886 |
| Publication date: | 2nd October 2003 |
| Author: | Ha Jin |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 323 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Politics |