Beijing Coma
Author
Original Work
Translator
Language
Year
2008
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
720
ISBN
9780312428365
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.— Google Books
Press Reviews
- The Guardianby Compiled by Ginny Hooker · Nov 2008
<p>A novel about cricket in New York, interviews with a Nobel poet, and a Hollywood memoir by a chimp . . . writers and politicians pick the best of 2008</p>
- The GuardianJun 2008
<p>Take Alexandre Dumas to Paris, read Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, pack Michael Dibdin for Sicily - wherever you are going on holiday this summer, writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions</p>
- The Guardianby James Lasdun · May 2008
<p>James Lasdun acclaims Ma Jin's monumental account of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma</p>
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