The Crazed
  • Published: 3 November 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099444886
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

The Crazed

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3 Nov 2003
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'Reading [Ha Jin] is almost like falling in love' New Yorker

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.
  • Published: 3 November 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099444886
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for The Crazed

Expertly done

Daily Mail

A compelling book... [Jin] has a fine sense of the human scale of history and an eye for the absurd

Guardian

[Jin's] new novel...again demonstrates his literary gifts

The Times

A fascinating tale told with skill and eloquence; a truly wonderful read

Publishing News

The Crazed...is a complicated web of human attachments. Like the best realist writers, Ha Jin sneaks emotional power into the plainest declarative sentences

New Yorker