Beijing Coma

Informationen zum Autor Ma Jian was born in Qingdao! China in 1953. He worked as a watch-mender and a painter of propaganda boards and was assigned a job as a photojournalist for a state-run magazine. At the age of thirty! Ma Jian left work and travelled for three years across China! a journey he later described in his book Red Dust! winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2002. He left Beijing for Hong Kong in 1987 but continued to travel to China! notably to support the pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. After the hand-over of Hong Kong he moved to Germany and then London! where he now lives. Klappentext A major new novel from the Chinese author of "Red Dust" and "Stick Out Your Tongue". Spiked with dark wit! poetic beauty and deep rage! it's a dazzling and excoriating tale about contemporary China. "Red Dust" sold 30!000 copies in paperback.

Product details

• Authors: Ma Jian
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780701178079
• ISBN: 978-0-7011-7807-9
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Chinesische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)