Chinese Fiction, Sports - Fiction, Humorous Fiction
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Overview
Now Wang Shuo, easily Chinas coolest and most popular novelist, applies his genius for satire and cultural irreverence to one of the worlds sacred rituals, the Olympic Games. In Please Dont Call Me Human, he imagines an Olympics where nations compete not on the basis of athletic prowess, but on their citizens capacity for humiliationand China is determined to win at any cost. Banned in China for its rudeness and vulgarity, this astonishing, tripped-out novel is filled with outlandish antics that have earned Wang Shuo his own genre, hooligan literature.Editorials
Wall Street Journal
...the purest of diabolical pleasures...may be the most delicious parody ever of China's often self-destructive pride...—(8/11/00)
Economist
Wang Shuo, dubbed China's Kerouac , has been a best selling author of zeitgeisty hooligan fiction . . . [this] surreal farce carries through to an apocalyptic close.The New Yorker
Much of the Jow Orton-like dialogue consists of exuberantly subverted cliché's, and the author's playfullness leavens his tales misanthropy.Book Details
Published
July 1, 2000
Publisher
New York : Hyperion East, c2000.
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780786864195