Waves: Stories by Bei Dao

ISBN: 0811211347

Author: Bei Dao

Condition: New

In Waves, Bei Dao-Chinas foremost modern poet-turns to fiction, recording the painful years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Avoiding polemics, his attention is on individuals-intellectuals and factory workers, drifters and thieves-swept up in the turbulent political tides of contemporary China. Bei Dao himself has been a victim of the censors, and he wrote the title novella clandestinely in a makeshift darkroom while ostensibly developing photographs. The author now lives in exile.