false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174370680m/389681.jpg 389681 5 <div><div>Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. <i>Stick Out Your Tongue </i>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 &#8220;harming the fraternal solidarity of the national minorities,&#8221; 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&#8212;and a window on the imagination of one of China&#8217;s foremost writers.</div></div> 379297 2 5 2006 Stick Out Your Tongue: Stories total:64|5:12|4:24|3:19|2:9|1:0| 64 231 104 17 389681 0374269882 9780374269883 50 13 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174370680m/389681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/389681.Stick_Out_Your_Tongue_Stories 4 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 10:47:57 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 10:47:57 -0700 2007
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