Stick Out Your Tongue
Autor Ma Jian Traducere de Flora Drewen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2007
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 to the walls 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 fact and fiction becomes confused and the man is drawn deep into an alien culture he knew nothing about, and which haunts his dreams.
Famously banned in China in 1987, Stick Out Your Tongue, is the book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile, and still makes it difficult for him to publish his work in China today. Written shortly after the journey to Tibet he describes so vividly in his prize-winnning travel memoir Red Dust, it is an extraordinary collection of stories about an extraordinary place -- a picture of Tibet that is both enchanting and horrifying, violent and beautiful, perverse and seductive. Ma Jian has written a new afterword for the book that explains it's title (it is what a doctor says to an ill patient when looking for a diagnosis) how it came to be written and something about the complex relationship between China and Tibet. This is the first publication in English of an important work of Chinese literature that has had a huge influence on other writers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780099481331
ISBN-10: 0099481332
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 131 x 199 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0099481332
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 131 x 199 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Recenzii
• “One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingjian, Nobel Prize Winner
• “Ma Jian... creates a stunning vision of a culture too easily and dangerously airbrushed into the ideals of others.” --Scotland on Sunday
• “Ma Jian... creates a stunning vision of a culture too easily and dangerously airbrushed into the ideals of others.” --Scotland on Sunday
Notă biografică
Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China. He is the author of seven novels, a travel memoir, three story collections and two essay collections. He has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since the publication of his first book in 1987, all his work has been banned in China. He now lives in exile in London
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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.
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.