After a shattering defeat for China in an international wrestling competition, a group of profiteers seeks out a young athletic hero to restore the country's damaged pride. In search of a living practitioner of a legendary fighting technique, the scouts find their man. Ironically, he is no warrior, but rather a slacker pedicab driver. What follows is a surreal, comic journey that includes a sex-change operation, an encounter with Buddha himself, and a humiliation competition where nations vie by performing feats of self-degradation.
Please Don't Call Me Human is a Fellini-esque satire of nationalism, the Olympics, and the cult of celebrity.
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Imagine an Olympics where nations compete not on the basis of athletic prowess, but on their citizen's capacity for humiliation--and China is determined to win at any cost, in this new satirical novel by one of China's most popular novelists. 10,000 first printing.
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. SHUO, WANG: Please Don't Call Me Human Hyperion 2000 translated by Howard Goldblatt First Edition Stated First Printing hardcover ISBN 0786864192 FINE, very clean, no marks, no writing. FINE dust jacket, no chips, no tears, slight shelf rubbing, now protected in archival mylar. Banned in China, by the writer the New York Times Book Review called "China's Kerouac." We have this rare book in stock, pack with care and ship promptly. The book you see in the photos is the book you will receive. Nº de ref. del artículo: CHN-LIT-S01
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