Jian Ma, Author, Ma Jian, Author, Flora Drew, Translator , trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $21 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-22307-6
Having "boarded the express train of the Open Door Policy," the characters in Ma's (Red Dust
) satisfying, satirical novel now find themselves disembarking in a land caught between the "bourgeois liberalism" of the West and the...
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Ma Jian, Author, Flora Drew, Translator , trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16 (93p) ISBN 978-0-374-26988-3
Ma's five evocative stories concern a young Chinese journalist's travels to the wild plateaus of occupied Tibet in the late 1980s. In the first story, "The Woman and the Blue Sky," the spiritually curious journalist, whose marriage...
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Ma Jian, Author, Flora Drew, Translator . Farrar $27 (586p) ISBN 978-0-374-11017-8
The outcome of this bleak, wrenching generational saga from Ma Jian (Stick Out Your Tongue
and The Noodle Maker
) is known from early on: the politicization of Dai Wei, a diligent molecular biology Ph.D. student at Beijing University, ends in...
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Ma Jian, Author, Flora Drew, Translator, Jian Ma, Author , trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew. Pantheon $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-42059-7
In 1983, squirming under constant government scrutiny and mourning a failed marriage, writer and photographer Jian abandons his home in Beijing to journey to China's western border with little more than a change of clothes, two bars of soap, a...
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Ma Jian, trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew. Counterpoint, $23 (192p) ISBN 978-1-64009-240-2
Exiled Chinese writer Ma’s satirical novel (after The Dark Road) is a bold, searing indictment of present-day China and a lyrical exposé of the false utopia created by the Communist Party and its current leader-for-life, Xi Jinping. Written “out of...
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