Attic:memoir of Chinese Landlord's Son

"Emotionally intense. With candor and humor, Cao reveals the reality of human pettiness and cruelty at a time of political repression and material scarcity."--Rey Chow, author ofWriting Diaspora and Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema "In this poignant and moving memoir, Guanlong Cao has captured the beauty and the cruelty, the mundane and the memorable, in prose that is deceptively sparse. With uncommon wit and an eye for the bizarre, he has created a haunting image of contemporary China."--Howard Goldblatt, editor ofChairman Mao Would Not be Amused: Fiction from Today's Chinaand translator ofBlood Red Sunset "Beneath Cao's descriptions of daily life lurks an intense, troubled humanism. It generates metaphor and imagination that, like good poetry, can make you look again at ordinary things and see them as if for the first time. Occasionally it reaches out, grabs you, and pulls you cringing through pages you will never forget."--Perry Link, author ofEvening Chats in Beijingand editor ofRoses and ThornsCao, Guanlong is the author of 'Attic:memoir of Chinese Landlord's Son' with ISBN 9780520204058 and ISBN 0520204050.