The Noodle Maker

Zusatztext

<p>Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his 'art', the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China.</p><p>Over the course of one especially gastronomic evening, the writer starts to complain about his latest Party commission: the story of an ordinary soldier who sacrifices his life to the revolutionary cause. This is not the novel he wants to write, he tells his friend. Inside his head lives an unwritten book about the people he knows or sees everyday on the streets - people who lives are far more representative of the world in which he lives...</p>

Autorenportrait

Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China in 1953. He is the author of<i>Stick out Your Tongue</i>, which in 1987 led to the permanent banning of his books in China;<i>Red Dust</i>, winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; four collections of short stories and essays, and eight novels, including<i>Beijing Coma</i>which was described as the definitive Tiananmen Square novel and a true landmark work of fiction (Boyd Tonkin,<i>Independent</i>). His last novel,<i>The Dark Road</i>, saw him permanently banned from returning to China. He has won the Index on Censorship Book Award and the Athens Prize for Literature, and has been translated into twenty languages. He now lives in exile in London.

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