false 53027 92325 0385720238 9780385720236 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171245594m/92325.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171245594s/92325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92325.Red_Dust_A_Path_Through_China 3.79 120
]]> 53027 3.65 451 133 2001 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050s/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 3.70 117 Beijing Coma is an unexpectedly visceral and daring work of fiction by critically acclaimed author Ma Jian that explores why a promising young student would risk it all in the spring of 1989. In this ingeniously constructed novel--which sets Dai Wei's internal recollections against the contemporary changes occurring beyond him--Ma Jian reveals the profound personal consequences of that historic struggle for freedom--long after the CNN cameras stopped rolling. --Lauren Nemroff]]> 53027 3.65 451 133 2008 321223 0312424795 9780312424794 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173741387m/321223.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173741387s/321223.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321223.The_Noodle_Maker_A_Novel 3.31 75
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, while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. Extraordinary characters inspire him, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they are balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker.

Ma Jian's satirical masterpiece allows us a humorous, yet profound, glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.</div></div>]]> 53027 3.65 451 133 2004 389681 0374269882 9780374269883 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174370680m/389681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174370680s/389681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/389681.Stick_Out_Your_Tongue_Stories 3.60 50 Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse.</div><div> </div><div>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 nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover on the wall of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between dream and reality becomes confused.</div><div> </div><div>When this book was published in Chinese in 1997, the government accused Ma Jian of “harming the fraternal solidarity of the national minorities,” and a blanket ban was placed on his future work. With its publication in English, including a new afterword by the author that sets the book in its personal and political context, readers get a rare glimpse of Tibet through Chinese eyes—and a window on the imagination of one of China’s foremost writers.</div></div>]]> 53027 3.65 451 133 2006 7156216 0099532727 9780099532729 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7156216-beijing-coma 3.33 3 53027 3.65 451 133 2909237 3.67 12 4 2009