Ma Bo'le's Second Life by Hong Xiao

Ma Bo'le's Second Life

Hong Xiao with Howard Goldblatt (Translator)

280 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective slow-paced
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Ma Bole follows the eponymous cowardly layabout as he escapes his unhappy family life by going on the run to avoid the coming Japanese invasion. A humorous-yet-stark depiction of despair in the face of war and Westernization, Xiao's novel (complet...

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