false 2100810 14 3453425 book 27 5 2008 Beijing Coma: A Novel total:134|5:40|4:46|3:30|2:14|1:4| 134 506 486 59 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:58:18 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:58:18 -0800 2009 Even reviewers who found serious problems with Beijing Coma admired its political honesty and narrative premise. They suggested that anyone reading this book would learn much about the circumstances leading to the confrontation in Tiananmen Square and the changes that have taken place in China since...

more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 0 1 false Thu Jul 24 08:37:40 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 08:38:04 -0700 2008 I'm reading Beijing Coma, by Ma Jian. It's a novel about the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989. I was there as a journalist at the time, and I find a lot of his descriptions very accurate, not least the endless bickering between different factions in the student movement. But he ha...more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 5 0 true Thu Jun 25 09:37:51 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 11:36:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 06:43:57 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 06:55:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3366792 0701178078 9780701178079 7 4 3.78 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3366792.Beijing_Coma 4 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 20 19:57:19 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 19:59:51 -0800 2008 To be more precise, Dai Wei has been lying in a coma for ten years, having been shot in the head during the Tiananmen Square massacre of Jun...more...]]> 6465256 0099481340 9780099481348 3 1 3.78 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6465256-beijing-coma 4 0 false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 18:43:27 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 18:47:43 -0700 2009
Depressing: a young man shot in Tiananmen, stuck in a coma throughout the 1990s, his mother caring for...more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 4 0 false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 31 11:31:51 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 22 23:15:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3366792 0701178078 9780701178079 7 4 3.78 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3366792.Beijing_Coma 4 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 08 19:48:51 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 19:50:33 -0700 2009
Dai Wei, a Beijing University student, has been shot in the head in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. The story proper be...more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 3 0 false Sun Oct 26 15:02:20 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 15:29:47 -0700 2008
The book's greatness lies in the way it...more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 3 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 28 10:03:33 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 20 13:49:29 -0800 2009
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Dai Wei is in a coma after being shot in the head at the Tianamen square massacre. His senses of hearing & smell are in tact. He drifts between memory of events leading up to the massacre and his present situation, lying almost senseless in a grimy, cluttered apartment ...more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 28 21:24:05 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 26 20:12:35 -0800 2008 Beijing Coma was like being in a coma. I can’t remember a book that felt this long. Yet it was remarkable in many ways and certainly worth having read once it was finished.

The novel’s protagonist and narrator, a victim of the Tienanmen squ...more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 4 0 false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 06:26:28 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 09:40:38 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 3366792 0701178078 9780701178079 7 4 3.78 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3366792.Beijing_Coma 5 0 false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 01:13:01 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 13:23:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 5 0 false Thu Mar 27 08:38:03 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 19:20:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Jun 16 02:21:40 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 02:25:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Jun 09 12:07:49 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 12:19:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 5 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 14:20:18 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 14:24:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 4 0 false Thu Aug 13 17:51:17 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 17:55:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 3 0 false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 17:02:06 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 17:05:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2100810 0374110174 9780374110178 114 48 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582050m/2100810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2100810.Beijing_Coma_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 11:02:14 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 11:04:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6465256