The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze
A mathematical novel by American Book Award winner
Alex Kuo
"In his impressive body of work spanning 40 years, Alex Kuo consistently pushes the limit of literary genres while defying some of society's most deeply entrenched assumptions. Nothing is pointless in Mr. Kuo's writing, and even the smallest details have the power to burrow far into the imagination. In fusing the political and the literary, Mr. Kuo illumintaes over and over again the profound power of the art." —Pauline W. Chen, writer and surgeon
"Mainstay of Chinese-American writing" —Maxine Hong Kingston
"Fresh and multidimensional" —Ishmael Reed
"A meditation on the emergence of truth from improbable fiction" —Wen Jin
"A parallel tale for our time . . . ocean-swimming, epic poem of a novel" —Al Young
"Uncommon artistry" —Xu Xi
"Reading Alex Kuo is best done twice" —Robert Wallace
The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze is a political and environmental novel bound to raise eyebrows on both sides of the Pacific. Two finite-numbers mathematicians—a Chinese woman and a Chinese American man—wrestle with their careers. Disillusioned with teaching, one works at the Three Gorges Dam in China, and the other for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. Unknown to each other, they struggle to balance their personal values against the global corporate determinism of dam building. Discovering their respective histories, China’s boom and the invention of the American West, they hunker down with determination. This döppelganger novel is energetic, disrespectful, lyrical, and funny.
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- HK$120
- ISBN 978-988-19195-6-4
- Softcover
- 5.5in x 8in
