- Mao Dun Literature Prize 2011 · Winner
Someone to Talk To
一句顶一万句 · Yi ju ding yiwan ju
Liu Zhenyun (刘震云, born 1958)
Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
English editions
In EnglishSomeone to Talk To
Duke University Press · United States · April 2018 · Paperback · 392 pages
Someone to Talk To
Duke University Press · United States · April 2018 · Hardcover · 392 pages
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Yang Baishun, son of a tofu seller in Yanjin, worships a man who leads funeral laments and wants nothing to do with tofu. He leaves home and works as a butcher, a dyer and a water carrier without caring for any of it, and becomes the ninth convert of an Italian priest, who renames him Moses. He marries into the family of Wu Xiangxiang, who runs a steamed-bun shop, and becomes Wu Moses, but he has nothing to say to his wife, only to her small daughter Qiaoling. When Xiangxiang runs off with a neighbour, Moses goes looking for her and loses the girl on the way. Seventy years later, Qiaoling's son, Niu Aiguo, repeats the journey in search of someone to talk to.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- China
- First published
- 2009 by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
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9780822370680 (Duke University Press, United States)
9780822370833 (Duke University Press, United States)