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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,…
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7 editions · 2 languages- Audiobook · English · 2021Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781665122498
- Hardcover · English · 2019Counterpoint · 176 pages · 9781640092402
- Audiobook · English · 2019Highbridge Co · 9781987185959
- Other · English · 2020Counterpoint Press · 192 pages · 9781640093867
- Other · English · 2018Chatto & Windus · 208 pages · 9781784742492
- Other · English · 2018Penguin Random House · 9781473557741
Fiction, psychologicalPoliticiansFictionChinese SatireSocial conditions









