Book De*ion This is Jim Fraser\'s story: an incredible, often chilling account of his life as an army deserter living through the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, when China descended into a moral and physical chaos so extreme that cannibalism became, for some, the only way of survival. Unable to speak the language and totally ignorant of local customs, Jim Fraser makes his home in a community so isolated that even the Cultural Revolution impinges little on the ways of the villagers. Except that the village\'s very isolation has made it the perfect location for experiments of sheer, indescribable terror ...\'I suspect this book will be compared with \"Robinson Crusoe\" (the outsider building his own abode) and \"Lord of the Flies\" (the long-term effects of context on individual mortality). It is a profound and sophisticated work of fiction\' - \"Observer\". Amazon.co.uk Review Journalist Sid Smith\'s debut novel is a brave excursion into little-known and alien territory. Armed with stocks of historical, political and medical information, he has somehow made the imaginative leap into a realm few understand: the sealed-off world of China during the Cultural Revolution. James Stuart Fraser, a private in the British Army, deserts and ends up spending 35 years \"among the unshiftable Chinese\". Many of those years are spent in the wretched poverty of a village of the despised Miao people, where life revolves around the solitary buffalo. The incredible tedium of Fraser\'s rural subsistence (existence is too strong a term) is evoked in a taut prose, filled with enthralling and convincing detail. However, as time passes Fraser grows aware of the pseudo-academic work going on at the clinic, where eugenicists wreak havoc with village life in their search for the scientific \"truth\" of race. As years suddenly pass in a paragraph, the pace races unannounced to thriller speed and the carefully wrought momentum Smith had achieved is lost. Notwithstanding, Smith has an important story to tell, and at its best, Something Like A House is very good indeed.
--Alan Stewart Book Dimension length: (cm)19.7 width:(cm)12.8
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