The Dark Road

Informationen zum Autor MA JIAN was born in Qingdao, China, in 1953. He is the author of Stick Out Your Tongue, his debut novel 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 six further novels, including Beijing Coma, winner of the Index on Censorship Book Award and the Athens Prize for Literature. His last book, The Dark Road, nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, saw him barred from returning to China. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He now lives in exile in London. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ma Jian, Jian Ma
• Assisted by: Flora Drew (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.04.2014
• EAN: 9780099590293
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959029-3
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 180 mm x 24 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature