Beijing Coma

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 A strange and seminal novel about the Tiananmen Sqaure protests. Dai Wei is a medical student who is caught by a bullet whilst protesting and falls into a deep coma for almost a decade, waking to find the China he once knew has changed, irrevocably and forever. A story of politics, madness, mothers and dreamworlds, this is an acknowledged modern masterpiece of Chinese literature. 'Made my heart thump.' "TLS". Zusammenfassung Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his friends bring news of their lives in an almost unrecognisable China, Dai Wei escapes into his memories.

Product details

• Authors: Ma Jian, Jian Ma, Jian Ma
• Assisted by: Flora Drew (Translation), Drew Flora (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780099481348
• ISBN: 978-0-09-948134-8
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 41 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Politics, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary