Auf Lager:
10+
Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Adrift in the South
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Verlag:
Granta Publications Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: G6NZQG4
EAN: 9781738536269
Auf Lager:
10+
Zustellung: Mo, 13.07.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 27.–
Beschreibung
When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities. Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first century, making iPhones and baby clothes, hand-stitching football shirts and cutting plastic into radios. Here, Xiao Hai reveals the alienation and tedium of factory life, the small indignities and indifference of the larger system. And he tells the story of how poetry led him somewhere unexpected: to join a small community of artists living, working, and studying together on the outskirts of Beijing. This memoir is a landmark text from China's migrant worker literature movement, a grassroots group of writers providing an unvarnished account of what life is like for the 300 million migrant workers powering the world's second-biggest economy.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Xiao Hai
- Tony Hao
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 320