

An edition of China Dream (2018)
By Ma Jian
Publish Date
Dec 25, 2018
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Language
eng
Pages
192
Description:
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.
subjects: Fiction, psychological, Politicians, Fiction, Chinese Satire, Social conditions