Ma Bole's Second Life by Xiao Hong, Howard Goldblatt

Ma Bole's Second Life

Xiao Hong, Howard Goldblatt

280 pages first pub 1940 (editions)

fiction emotional reflective slow-paced
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Ma Bole’s Second Life is a humorous-yet-stark depiction of the despair of ordinary Chinese people confronted with the sudden onslaught of war and Westernization. It follows the eponymous cowardly layabout as he escapes his unhappy family life by g...

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