Beijing Coma

Zusatztext

<p>Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his friends bring news of their lives in an almost unrecognisable China, Dai Wei escapes into his memories, weaving together the events that took him from his harsh childhood in the last years of the Cultural Revolution to his time as a microbiology student at Beijing University.</p><p>As the minute-by-minute chronicling of the lead-up to his shooting becomes ever more intense, the reader is caught in a gripping, emotional journey where the boundaries between life and death are increasingly blurred.</p>

Autorenportrait

Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China in 1953. He is the author of<i>Stick out Your Tongue</i>, which in 1987 led to the permanent banning of his books in China;<i>Red Dust</i>, winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; four collections of short stories and essays, and eight novels, including<i>Beijing Coma</i>which was described as the definitive Tiananmen Square novel and a true landmark work of fiction (Boyd Tonkin,<i>Independent</i>). His last novel,<i>The Dark Road</i>, saw him permanently banned from returning to China. He has won the Index on Censorship Book Award and the Athens Prize for Literature, and has been translated into twenty languages. He now lives in exile in London.

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