# The Crazed

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- Book: [The Crazed](https://www.bookquiver.com/ha-jin/the-crazed) ([The Crazed.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ha-jin/the-crazed.md))
- Authors: [Ha Jin](https://www.bookquiver.com/ha-jin)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9944-488-6
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2003-10-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family... Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. Lyrical and heart-breaking, The Crazed is an incisive portrait of modern Chinese society.