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The English Class
by Ouyang Yu.
Transit Lounge, Yarraville, 2010.
First Edition paperback.
Cover photo by Luo Hao and design by Peter Lo.
‘If he died, all those books that he had been writing in his head would die with him, to which no one even the best biographer in the world, could gain access. He would die without a name or a record to burden him with, to burden others with…. A man passes and leaves a name just as a bird passes and leaves a sound. What an absurdity! A bird certainly does not think that way, only a human being does and he dies irretrievably and irreversibly.’ (p.389)
‘Shifting from China to Australia, The English Class movingly explores cultural translation, dislocation, language and our need to leave our mark. The novel’s ‘cultural crisis, searingly yet sympathetically imagined by Ouyang Yu, is to “hate that China within me” to have run away from China only to have discovered “that the language I ran into never accepts me.’’’(Peter Pierce, The Age 25 September 2010)
Condition: Cover is slightly curled at top and bottom corners and there is minor shelf wear to bottom edges. Page edges are tanned and a printer’s smudge to back page, otherwise in very good condition.
