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This is Jim Fraser'sstory: an incredible, often chilling account of his life as an armydeserter living through the terrible upheavals of the CulturalRevolution, when China descended into a moral and physical chaos soextreme that cannibalism became, for some, the only way ofsurvival. Unable to speak the language and totally ignorant oflocal customs, Jim Fraser makes his home in a community so isolatedthat even the Cultural Revolution impinges little on the ways ofthe villagers. Except that the village's very isolation has made itthe 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" (thelong-term effects of context on individual mortality). It is aprofound and sophisticated work of fiction' - "Observer".

Amazon.co.uk Review

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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