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02609aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 4DA8A460C38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 170319s2017 wau 000 f eng d 020 $a 1611097428 020 $a 9781611097429 035 $a (OCoLC)978291074 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d IMR $d MR0 $d CDX $d IWA $d SILO 041 $a eng $h chi 050 4 $a PL2843 P5 G36313 2017 100 1 $a Jia, Pingwa, $e author. 240 10 $a Gao xing. $l English 245 10 $a Happy dreams / $c Jia Pingwa ; translated by Nicky Harman. 264 1 $a Seattle : $b Amazoncrossing, $c ©2017 300 $a 480 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Original Chinese edition was previously published by the People's Literature Publishing House in 2008. 520 $a Poverty and injustice test one man's relentless optimism. From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy Liu, a charming and clever rural laborer who leaves his home for the gritty, harsh streets of Xi'an in search of a better life. After a disastrous end to a relationship, Hawa "Happy" Liu embarks on a quest to find the recipient of his donated kidney and a life that lives up to his self-given moniker. Traveling from his rural home in Freshwind to the city of Xi'an, Happy brings only an eternally positive attitude, his devoted best friend WuFu, and a pair of high-heeled women's shoes he hopes to fill with the love of his life. In Xi'an, Happy and Wufu find jobs as trash pickers sorting through the city's filth, but Happy refuses to be deterred by inauspicious beginnings. In his eyes, dusty birds become phoenixes, the streets become rivers, and life is what you make of it. When he meets the beautiful Yichun, he imagines she is the one to fill the shoes and his Cinderella-esque dream. But when the harsh city conditions and the crush of societal inequalities take the life of his friend and shake Happy to his soul, he'll need more than just his unrelenting optimism to hold on to the belief that something better is possible. -- back cover. 650 0 $a Poverty $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Justice $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Optimism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Hope $v Fiction. 651 0 $a China $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Harman, Nicky, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l UVAX975 $d 20240215014116.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103014822.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4DA8A460C38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search