Red Dust: A Path Through China. Winner of The Thomas Cook Book Award 2002 - Softcover

Jian, Ma

 
9780099283294: Red Dust: A Path Through China. Winner of The Thomas Cook Book Award 2002
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099283298 ISBN 13: 9780099283294
Verlag: Vintage, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance from his work unit and the police, as Deng Xiaoping clamped down on 'Spiritual Pollution'. His ex-wife was seeking custody of their daughter; his girlfriend was sleeping with another man; and he could no longer find the inspiration to write or paint. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself.

Ma Jian's journey would last three years and take him to deserts and overpopulated cities, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquillity and beauty. The result is an utterly unique insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both an insider and an outsider in his own country could have written.

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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

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099283298
ISBN 13 
9780099283294
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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