false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173741387m/321223.jpg 321223 5 <div><div>From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.<br><br>Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries, while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. Extraordinary characters inspire him, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they are balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker.<br><br>Ma Jian's satirical masterpiece allows us a humorous, yet profound, glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.</div></div> 311956 2004 The Noodle Maker: A Novel total:98|5:11|4:26|3:44|2:15|1:2| 98 323 185 18 321223 0312424795 9780312424794 75 13 3.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173741387m/321223.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321223.The_Noodle_Maker_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 03:17:41 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 20:22:39 -0700 2009 "The Noodle Maker" by Ma Jian
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