A first-hand look at growing up during Maos Cultural Revolution Follows the authors life as a boy in Beijing and then as an exile in the countryside Of interested to anyone curious about life under Mao Authored by one of Chinas leading writers

LISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZENinth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about-the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate situations. Jeremy Tiang's enthralling translation of this important work of fiction was awarded a PEN/Heim Grant.