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Books by Ma Jian
  | | China Dream by Ma Jian Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-869-6, ISBN: 1-78470-869-0 "‘One of China’s 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 ..." |
 | | The Dark Road(Reprint) A Novel by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-312540-2, ISBN: 0-14-312540-0 "From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: normal” parents are permitted by the state to have only a single child. Written while Ma Jian traveled the rural backwate ..." |
 | | The Noodle Maker(1st Edition) A Novel by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42479-4, ISBN: 0-312-42479-5 "From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries, w ..." |
 | | Red Dust(Reprint) A Path Through China by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2002 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72023-6, ISBN: 0-385-72023-8 "Chinese dissident and sometimes vagabond Ma Jian offers a sharp-edged, often surprising portrait of his native land, one that takes his readers into corners that few non-Chinese travelers have seen. In 1983, Ma, tired of life in a China that, he writes, "feels like an old tin of beans that, having lain in the dark for forty years, is beginning to burst at the seams," grew his hair, quit his job, and took to the road. As he recounts in ..." |
 | | Stick Out Your Tongue(1st Edition) Stories by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42690-3, ISBN: 0-312-42690-9 "When Stick Out Your Tongue was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English, readers get a rare glimpse of Tibet through Chinese eyes. In this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a n ..." |
 | | China Dream by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2019 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-64009-240-2, ISBN: 1-64009-240-4 "One of the year's most anticipated novels in translation, written by an acclaimed Chinese author whose entire body of work has been banned by his home country, and published in the thirtieth-anniversary year of the Tiananmen Square Massacre Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just been appointed Director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with overwriting people’s private dreams with President Xi’s great China Dream of nat ..." |
 | | Beijing Coma(1st Edition) A Novel by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 2008 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-11017-8, ISBN: 0-374-11017-4 "Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier’s bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney to fund special treatment from Master Yao, a m ..." |
 | | The Dark Road (Paperback) by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-957226-8, ISBN: 0-09-957226-5 "Dark Road" |
 | | Beijing Coma(Reprint) A Novel by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Paperback, 720 Pages, Published 2009 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42836-5, ISBN: 0-312-42836-7 "Dai Wei, a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. But as the millennium draws near, he begins to emerge from unconsciousness, and to sense the massive changes in his country. At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, and a seminal story of the Tiananmen Square protests, "Beijing Coma "is Ma Jian's masterpiece." |
 | | China Dream by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2018 by Chatto & Windus International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-78474-249-2, ISBN: 1-78474-249-X "Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just been appointed Director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with overwriting people’s private dreams with President Xi’s great China Dream of national rejuvenation. He has an impressive office, three properties and a bevy of mistresses texting him night and day.But just as Ma Daode is putting the finishing touches to his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, things ta ..." |
 | | The Noodle Maker(1st Edition) A Novel by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-22307-6, ISBN: 0-374-22307-6 ""One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical and powerfully written novel--excerpted in The New Yorker--about the absurdities and cruelties of life in post-Tianamen China. Two men, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor, meet for dinner every week. During the course of on ..." |
 | | The Dark Road A Novel by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59420-502-6, ISBN: 1-59420-502-7 " From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reach Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: normal” parents are permitted by the state to have o ..." |
 | | Stick Out Your Tongue(1st Edition) Stories by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Hardcover, 93 Pages, Published 2006 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-26988-3, ISBN: 0-374-26988-2 "Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse. In this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tib ..." |
 | | Red Dust(Updated) by Ma Jian Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage Books Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928329-4, ISBN: 0-09-928329-8 "On very rare occasions, a book can be so fresh, vivid and sincere that its integrity will be apparent almost before you have begun reading it. This brilliant account of a three-year exploration of China during the first wave of economic liberalisation following the death of Mao Zedong is one such book. In Red Dust, Ma Jian tells the story of how, on his 30th birthday, facing arrest for spiritual pollution in his journalistic job in Bei ..." |
 | | Red Dust(1st Edition) A Path Through China by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42059-7, ISBN: 0-375-42059-2 "1983 Ma Jian, a photographer, painter, poet, and writer, set out for the most remote and roughest parts of China. Dispirited and fearful, accused at work of having “a sluggish mentality,” confronted with a failed marriage, an estranged young daughter, and a girlfriend involved with another man, he abandons Beijing and a life he can no longer endure. Red Dust is the account of his travels, a remarkably written and subtly moving journey t ..." |
 | | Red Dust A Path Through China >>>> THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING PAPERBACK ORIGINAL - THIS COPY HAS ALSO BEEN SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR <<<< by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Paperback, Published 2001 by Penguin Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-6912-1, ISBN: 0-7011-6912-5 |
 | | China Dream by Ma Jian 192 Pages, Published 2019 by Catapult ISBN-13: 978-1-64009-241-9, ISBN: 1-64009-241-2 "This new recipe Master Wang has texted me – I'll need to travel to the netherworld to fetch Yellow Spring water, but the rest of the ingredients should be easy to find. Ma Daode opens the search engine on his phone and types BLACK CAT." |
 | | The Noodle Maker(Updated) by Ma Jian Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-945906-4, ISBN: 0-09-945906-X "[LI LIAO walks in and stands beside SU SU's chair. His lined face resembles a walnut. SU SU averts her gaze and links her hands across her chest. ..." |
 | | The Dark Road >>>> THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK - THIS COPY HAS ALSO BEEN SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR <<<< by Ma Jian, Flora Drew Hardcover, Published 2013 by Chatto & Windus, London ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-8753-8, ISBN: 0-7011-8753-0 |
 | | The Dark Road A Novel by Ma Jian 384 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-101-60584-4, ISBN: 1-101-60584-7 "A Novel Ma Jian. afar meet but rarely. Let us raise our glass in joy and drown our sorrows!” Since you didn't find your mother today, we won't charge you anything for this trip. Come on, now. It's not often I get to sit down with a graduate. Let's test ... Weiwei says. He undoes the top button of his shirt, then, glancing at Meili, quickly does it up again. '“The white sun sinks behind the mountain as the Yellow River glides toward ..." |
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