Wild Kids: Two Novels about Growing Up

by Chang Ta-chun

Book Overview

These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231120966
• ISBN13: 9780231120968
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Introspective journeys

Wild Kids is split into two stories, Kid Sister and Wild Child. I preferred Kid Sister but both were great stories. Kid Sister is about the narrator's younger sister getting an abortion and he recollects how she has affected his life. Wild Child is about a young boy that has a wild side that leads him to the wrong place where he ends up on a destructive path. Both stories examine the narrator's family life, inner problems, issues, how society affects people and relations with others. Neither of the stories flow in a conventional manner, jumping from different events while intertwining thoughts and recollections of childhood memories. The story still does not lose you and keeps you engrossed to the end. I definitely reccommend this book.