Informationen zum Autor Ma Jian was born in Qingdao! China. He is the author of seven novels! a travel memoir! three story collections and two essay collections. He has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since the publication of his first book in 1987! all his work has been banned in China. He now lives in exile in London Klappentext 'Believable and brutal, this is Ma Jian's boldest...most elegiac work' FINANCIAL TIMES, BOOK OF THE YEAR In seven dream-like episodes, Ma Jian - the banned Chinese writer hailed as 'China's Solzhenitsyn' - charts the psychological disintegration of a government leader in provincial China who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past. A biting dystopian satire, what Ma Jian reveals is a nation blinded by materialism and governed by violence and lies. Blending tragic and absurd reality with myth and fantasy, this is not a portrait of an imagined future, but of China as it is today. Zusammenfassung After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping's China Dream of national rejuvenation.
Paru le : 29/05/2019
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Auteur(s) : Auteur : Jian, Ma
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Vintage UK
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EAN13 : 9781784708696
Pages : 178
Hauteur: 198.0 cm / Largeur 129.0 cm
Épaisseur: 12.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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