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The Maverick Pig: Wang Xiaobo (Penguin Archive)

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

 

Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo’s essays established him as one of China’s most popular – and subversive – writers. From the political power of silence to the irrepressible spirit of a pig he met while working in a commune, these reflections on life and literature in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution provide a rare glimpse of a fearless satirical genius.

Author: Xiaobo Wang
Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780241747315
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2025

Wang Xiaobo was born in 1952. From 1968 to 1970, he worked on a farm in Yunnan, China, as an 'educated' youth. He published Golden Age in 1992, first in Taiwan, but publication in China soon followed, where it was an immediate success, still topping bestseller lists today. Wang Xiaobo died of a heart attack in 1997, at the age of forty-four.

 

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