The Crazed (Vintage International) (edit title)

Tim W edited the quotations of The Crazed (Vintage International) Thursday, September 17 2009.

• Added a quotation: “It’s personal interests, that motivate the individual and therefore generate the dynamics of history.”

Tim W edited the summary of The Crazed (Vintage International) Thursday, September 17 2009.

• Set against the backdrop of the Tianamen Square uprising, a Chinese literature professor suffers a stroke and relives his suffering in the Cultural Revolution through his dementia. His star pupil and future son in law is tasked with caring for him but is disturbed at what he learns from the old man’s ravings.

Shelfari edited the description of The Crazed (Vintage International) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post, Los Angeles times, and San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the Year Ha Jin’s seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke, his student Jian Wan is assigned to care for him. Since the dutiful Jian plans to marry his mentor’s beautiful, icy daughter, the job requires delicacy. Just how much delicacy becomes clear when Yang begins to rave. Are these just the outpourings of a broken mind, or is Yang speaking the truth—about his family, his colleagues, and his life’s work? And will bearing witness to the truth end up breaking poor Jian’s heart? Combining warmth and intimacy with an unsparing social vision, The Crazed is Ha Jin’s most enthralling book to date.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Crazed (Vintage International) Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Ha Jin:

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Crazed (Vintage International) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ha Jin: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Crazed (Vintage International) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Everybody was surprised when Professor Yang suffered a stroke in the spring of 1989.