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Jia, Pingwa.
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Poverty -- Fiction.
Justice -- Fiction.
Hope -- Fiction.
China -- Fiction.
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Jia, Pingwa.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Justice -- Fiction.
Hope -- Fiction.
China -- Fiction.
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Happy
dreams
/ Jia Pingwa ; translated by Nicky Harman.
by
Jia, Pingwa.
Amazoncrossing, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION JIA
Subjects
Poverty -- Fiction.
Justice -- Fiction.
Hope -- Fiction.
China -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781611097429 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st English ed.
Description:
480 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"Original Chinese edition was previously published by the People's Literature Publishing House in 2008."--T.p. verso.
Translated from the Chinese.
Summary:
"After a disastrous end to a relationship, Hawa '
Happy
' Liu embarks on a quest to find the recipient of his donated kidney and a life that lives up to his self-given moniker. Traveling from his rural home in Freshwind to the city of Xi'an,
Happy
brings only an eternally positive attitude, his devoted best friend Wufu, and a pair of high-heeled women's shoes he hopes to fill with the love of his life. In Xi'an,
Happy
and Wufu find jobs as trash pickers sorting through the city's filth, but
Happy
refuses to be deterred by inauspicious beginnings. In his eyes, dusty birds become phoenixes, the streets become rivers, and life is what you make of it. When he meets the beautiful Yichun, he imagines she is the one to fill the shoes and his Cinderella-esque dream. But when the harsh city conditions and the crush of societal inequalities take the life of his friend and shake
Happy
to his soul, he'll need more than just his unrelenting optimism to hold on to the belief that something better is possible."--From publisher.
Genre:
Literary fiction.
Chinese fiction -- Translations into English.
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