China dream
Ma, Jian, 1953-2018
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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.
Main title:
China dream / Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew.
Author:
Ma, Jian, 1953-, authorDrew, Flora, translator
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2018.
Collation:
xii, 180 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Chinese.
ISBN:
9781784742492 (hbk)
Dewey class:
895.136
Language:
EnglishChinese
Subject:
BRN:
2724396