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In The Face Of Death We Are Equal

Mu Cao
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.” Here begins Mu CaosnovelIn the Face of Death We Are Equal, an unrelentingly realistic portrait of working-class gay men in the underbelly of Chinese society. He Donghai is days away from his sixtieth birthday and long-awaited retirement from his job as a corpse burner at a Beijing crematorium. As he approaches the momentous day, he reflects on his life and his relationship with a special group of young men who live and love on the margins of Chinese society. One of them is Ah Qing, a young migrant worker who leaves his village in Henan Province to earn a living in cities—and who has an unexpected personal connection to He. Through a disrupted and nonlinear narrative technique, and alternating between first, second, and third person,In the Face of Death We Are Equaltells the story of Ah and other young men like him.Sometimes enraging, often humorous, but always powerful, this novel explores the economic and sexual exploitation of young men and women from Chinas impoverished countryside who seek survival in the shadow of Chinas economic “miracle.” Deftly translated by Scott E. Myers, it is the first title in Seagulls new Pride List, which showcases important queer writing from around the world. Written in Mu Caos trademark earthy, sometimes graphic, idiom,In the Face of Death We Are Equalwill be a valuable addition to queer and Chinese literature in translation. >In The Face Of Death We Are EqualSeagull Books9780857426987
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“Those who know me call me Old He, and they also know that Ive worked in a crematorium for my entirelife.” Here begins Mu CaosnovelIn the Face of Death We Are Equal, an unrelentingly realistic portrait of working-class gay men in the underbelly of Chinese society. He Donghai is days away from his sixtieth birthday and long-awaited retirement from his job as a corpse burner at a Beijing crematorium. As he approaches the momentous day, he reflects on his life and his relationship with a special group of young men who live and love on the margins of Chinese society. One of them is Ah Qing, a young migrant worker who leaves his village in Henan Province to earn a living in cities—and who has an unexpected personal connection to He. Through a disrupted and nonlinear narrative technique, and alternating between first, second, and third person,In the Face of Death We Are Equaltells the story of Ah and other young men like him.Sometimes enraging, often humorous, but always powerful, this novel explores the economic and sexual exploitation of young men and women from Chinas impoverished countryside who seek survival in the shadow of Chinas economic “miracle.” Deftly translated by Scott E. Myers, it is the first title in Seagulls new Pride List, which showcases important queer writing from around the world. Written in Mu Caos trademark earthy, sometimes graphic, idiom,In the Face of Death We Are Equalwill be a valuable addition to queer and Chinese literature in translation.
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ISBN
9780857426987
Distributor
Seagull Books
Author
Mu Cao
COVER
Hardback
PAGES
400