The Dark Road
Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life. For years they drift south through the poisoned waterways and ruined landscapes of China, picking up work as they go along, scavenging for necessities an…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4481-1327-9
- EAN: 9781448113279
- Produktnummer: 14341976
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 432 KB
Über den Autor
Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China in 1953. He is the author of Stick out Your Tongue, which in 1987 led to the permanent banning of his books in China; Red Dust, winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; four collections of short stories and essays, and eight novels, including Beijing Coma which was described as 'the definitive Tiananmen Square novel' and 'a true landmark work' of fiction (Boyd Tonkin, Independent). His last novel, The Dark Road, saw him permanently banned from returning to China. He has won the Index on Censorship Book Award and the Athens Prize for Literature, and has been translated into twenty languages. He now lives in exile in London.
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