In Waves, Bei Dao--China's foremost modern poet--turns to fiction, recording the painful years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Avoiding polemics, his attention is on individuals--intellectuals and factory workers, drifters and thieves--swept up in the turbulent political tides of contemporary China. Bei Dao himself has been a victim of the censors, and he wrote the title novella clandestinely in a makeshift darkroom while ostensibly developing photographs. The author now lives in exile.
| ISBN: | 9780811211345 |
| Publication date: | 17th May 1990 |
| Author: | Bei Dao |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | New Directions Paperbook |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |