Western Contingent
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Word Count
27,000 words, Guess
Page Count
108 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29372086M
- ISBN-139781628972825
- OCLC Control Number1021297260
- Library of Congress Control Number2018026045
Classifications
- LCCPS3601
Description
"Loosely based on events that occurred during the Chinese Civil War, The Western Contingent follows a group of forty-eight young men who unexpectedly find themselves recruited for a mysterious mission deemed vital to their country's future prosperity. After undergoing a brief period of training and indoctrination, the peasants-cum-soldiers leave their hometown of Luan hungry for their first taste of combat. Doubt, however, soon sets in. Their colonel shows signs of mental instability, the people they're supposedly fighting for treat them with indifference, and the purpose of their mission, as they continue marching west, only becomes more and more unclear. Anderson's debut novel introduces readers to a writer of lucid, hallucinatory prose worthy of comparison with Roberto Bolan o, Cormac McCarthy, and Jose Saramago" --
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