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Lao She ; translated by William A. Lyell ; with an introduction by Ian Johnson

(Penguin modern classics)

Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2013, c1932

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Maochengji

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Description

When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted with all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the narcotic effects of the reverie leaf - their food staple. But curiosity turns to despair when he ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture, and realizes that he is witnessing the bleak decline of a civilization. Cat Country, Lao She's only work of science fiction, is both a dark, dystopian tale of one man's close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry.

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  • NCID
    BB16869218
  • ISBN
    • 9780143208129
  • Country Code
    at
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    chi
  • Place of Publication
    Melbourne
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 222 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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