Four Generations Under One Roof

Four Generations under One Roof

Three volumes in one French edition
Author Lao She
Country China
Language Chinese
Published 1944-1945, 3 vols.

Four Generations under One Roof (四世同堂 Si Shi Tong Tang) is a 1944 novel by Lao She describing the life of the Chinese people during the Japanese Occupation.[1] An abridged translation The Yellow Storm by Ida Pruitt appeared in 1951. Complete translation into French as Quatre générations sous un même toit by Chantal Chen-Andro with a preface by J. M. G. Le Clézio appeared in 2000.

References

  1. Chih-tsing Hsia -A History of Modern Chinese Fiction -1999 0253334772 p.369 "Immediately after the war Lao She announced his most ambitious project, entitled Four Generations under One Roof. It was to be a novel of a million words, and to be published in three parts as Bewilderment, Ignominy, and Famine."


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