The Crazed by Ha Jin - 2002

In his luminous new novel, The Crazed Ha Jin - author of Waiting deepens his portrait of contemporary Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, his student Jian Wan—who is also engaged to Yang's daughter—has been assigned to care for him. Seemingly a simple if burdensome duty becomes treacherous when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues, a system in which a scholar is "just a piece of meat on a cutting board." Hard cover book in very good condition, black covers with gold lettering are very good, pages are clean and unmarked but are starting to tan from age. The Crazed Author Ha Jin Publisher: Heinemann ISBN 0434010480 9780434010486 323 pages Size: about 8.7 x 5.6 x 4.4 in Uk printed 1st ed Jacket design by Michael Mascaro Cover photograph by Photorica Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- City- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit Crazed 4689 HC Fiction 44 BMK