A biting satire of Chinese totalitarianism from the critically acclaimed author of Beijing Coma and Red Dust.
Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China. He is the author of seven novels, a travel memoir, three story collections and two essay collections. He has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since the publication of his first book in 1987, all his work has been banned in China. He now lives in exile in London
A master of inimitable humour. Always hilarious, thought-provoking,
and immensely moving
*Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans*
A biting and humane novel of stunning concision... Bleakly funny,
incisive, stinging and – in its most destabilising passages –
gut-wrenching
*Guardian*
A savage satire of Chinese authoritarianism and censorship...
Believable and brutal, this is Ma Jian’s boldest…most elegiac
work’
*Financial Times*
Mr Ma's critique of the totalitarian mindset recalls that of
Soviet-era dissidents...tragic and elegiac...garnished with both
horror and tenderness... A hand-grenade of a book
*The Economist*
This must be one of the liveliest novels about brainwashing ever
written… For all the horror, Ma sees freedom in confronting the
true nightmare of the past, perceiving that it is the only way to
liberate our futures
*Spectator*
Creepily Orwellian... makes Mao’s Cultural Revolution look like
minor tinkering
*Mail on Sunday*
Crackles with bruising satire …China Dream may be the purest
distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s
darkest corners
*New York Times*
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