by Lu Wenfu · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020396172
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«Nid d'hommes» is the novel by Lu Wenfu, published by Seuil in paperback (544 pages, in French).
In the 1940s, the young scholar Xu Dawei inherits a traditional house in Suzhou and opens it, with his cousin's help, to a group of students imbued with socialist ideals. The dwelling becomes a symbol of the upheavals of revolutionary China: decades later, transformed into a factory and shanties, it reflects the survival and contradictions of Maoist intellectuals. Narrated between fiction and autobiography, it combines humor and bitterness to portray a generation betrayed by nationalists and communists.
The work belongs to Seuil's Cadre vert collection.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century Chinese literature and in historical fiction with a political backdrop.
