Ma Jian: China Dream
China Dream
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 05/2019
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781784708696
- Bestellnummer: 8950891
- Gewicht: 226 g
- Maße: 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.5.2019
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
`One of Chinäs greatest living novelists GuardianBlending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a microchip that will be implanted into the brain of every citizen to replace all painful recollections with a collective dream of national supremacy, his sanity begins to unravel. Plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, his nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future.
This darkly comic fable is a dystopian vision of repression and state-enforced amnesia set not in the future, but in China today.
`Excoriating Not for nothing has Ma been called both the Orwell and Solzhenitsyn of Chinese literature A Financial Times Book of the Year
`Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegot, sort of: powerful!
Margaret Atwood, via Twitter