Skip to content

Rickshaw Boy A Novel

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0061436925

ISBN-13: 9780061436925

Edition: 2010

Authors: She Lao, Howard Goldblatt

List price: $15.99
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driverFirst published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. A man of simple needs whose greatest ambition is to one day own his own rickshaw, Xiangzi is nonetheless thwarted, time and again, in his attempts to improve his lot in life.One of the most important and popular works of twentieth-century Chinese literature, Rickshaw Boy is an unflinchingly honest, darkly comic look at a life on the margins of society and a searing indictment of the philosophy…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.43" wide x 7.91" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English