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Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s, this novel prompted the first critical discussion of postmodernism in Chinese fiction and still stands as the most provocative and innovative narrative published in Taiwan over the past two decades.

Backed against the Sea: A Novel

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Hardback by Wen-hsing Wang , Edward Gunn

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Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished... Read more

    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 28/02/2010
    ISBN13: 9780939657865, 978-0939657865
    ISBN10: 0939657864

    Number of Pages: 142

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s, this novel prompted the first critical discussion of postmodernism in Chinese fiction and still stands as the most provocative and innovative narrative published in Taiwan over the past two decades.

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