{"product_id":"golden-age-by-wang-xiaobo-9780241634226","title":"Golden Age","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your balls crushed.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo 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 at a Beijing university, and his entanglements with family, friends, and lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGolden Age\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46545046995180,"sku":"9780241634226","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/55803482274.jpg?v=1749789772","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/golden-age-by-wang-xiaobo-9780241634226","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}