The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo a satire of the Cultural Revolution in its
first full English translation 'Wang Xiaobo is a truly unique writer and there are very few
writers like him' Ai Weiwei 'Fills the reader with aching poignancy and yet makes them want to
laugh out loud' Jung Chang author of Wild Swans Twenty-one year old Wang Er stationed in a
remote mountain commune spends his days herding oxen napping and dreaming of losing his
virginity. His dreams come true in the shape of the beautiful doctor Cheng Qinyang. So begins
the riotously funny story of their illicit love affair the Party officials who enjoy their
forced confessions a little too much and Wang's life under the Communist regime: his
misadventures as a biology lecturer in a Beijing university and his entanglements with family
friends and lovers. Golden Age is an explosive subversive wild and hilarious satire
featuring one of literature's great protagonists a sensation when it was published in the
1990s and beloved today.
