ISBN  9788415625285

EL PEQUEÑO GUARDIA ROJO

Autor  WENGUANG HUANG
Editorial  LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE S.L.U.
Condicion  Nuevo

In this vivid humorous autobiography Wenguang Huang recounts his coming of age in the 1970s in Xi an in central China during the country s Cultural Revolution. When he was nine years old his grandmother became obsessed with her own death and with the funeral rites that would grant her eternal peace. Terrified by the thought of cremation--obligatory in communist China--she made her family promise to bury her in her native village. Huang s father gathered what little savings he had and built a coffin appointing Huang his oldest son as coffin keeper--a responsibility that meant among other things sleeping next to the coffin at night. Over the next 20 years even as profound social and political changes gripped the country the Huang family diligently planned the funeral. In this memoir of the last three decades of the 20th century Huang a translator and journalist who ultimately immigrated to the United States paints a portrait of a society caught between ancient traditions and a radical push for modernization of the Maoist regime. As he recounts his own family s story Huang offers illuminating insights into the contradictions that make up modern China. Wenguang Huang creció en Xi an en la China central en los años setenta en plena Revolución Cultural. Cuando tenía nueve años su abuela comenzó a obsesionarse con su vida más allá de la muerte y con los ritos funerarios que le debían garantizar descanso eterno. Aterrada ante la idea de que la incinerasen práctica obligatoria en la China comunista hace prometer a su familia que será enterrada en su aldea natal. Su padre invertirá los pocos ahorros de que disponen en construir un ataúd que Wenguang será el encargado de custodiar. A lo largo de los casi veinte años en los que la familia planea los detalles del entierro el país sufre las profundas transformaciones sociales y políticas que terminarán por convertirlo en la gran potencia económica del siglo XXI. Huang un traductor y periodista que emigró a


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