China Dream
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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, this dystopian novel is a portrait not of an imagined future, but of China today. |
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2018
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Chatto & Windus
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978-1-784-74249-2
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