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China dream / Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew.
Van Pelt Library PL2948.3.J53 Z4613 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ma, Jian, 1953- author.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politicians--China--Fiction.
- Politicians.
- Satire, Chinese.
- Social conditions.
- China--Social conditions--Fiction.
- China.
- Genre:
- Dystopian fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 180 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2018.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Summary:
- A poetic and unflinching fable about tyranny, guilt, and the erasure of history, by the banned Chinese writer hailed as 'China's Solzhenitsyn .In seven dream-like episodes, Ma Jian charts the psychological disintegration of a Chinese provincial leader who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past. From exile, Ma Jian shoots an arrow at President Xi Jinping's 'China Dream propaganda, creating a biting satire of totalitarianism that reveals what happens to a nation when it is blinded by materialism and governed by violence and lies. Blending tragic and absurd reality with myth and fantasy, this dystopian novel is a portrait not of an imagined future, but of China today.
- ISBN:
- 9781784742492
- 178474249X
- OCLC:
- 1066747279
- Publisher Number:
- 99978412149
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