The dark road is an angrier, more openly confrontational novel than its predecessors. A novel and millions of other books are available for amazon. The reason i mention this, is because i chose the dark road by dint of experiencing the exact opposite. The chinese writer ma jian, author of the dark road. Fyvel book award and the 2010 athens prize for literature. The dark road, a novel by ma jian the new york times.
He met local women who had been seized from their homes and forced to undergo abortions or sterilization in the policys name. If a panda gets pregnant, the entire nation celebrates. The dark road download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. This is particular cause for concern since the chinese government has a dark history of. I read this book about three weeks ago and i am far enough removed from it to write the reflection. When researching the dark road, ma posed as an official reporter to witness the forced sterilisations and abortions carried out by the government, and as. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Sijia jiang, china cracks down on unauthorized internet connections, reuters. The book was banned in china as a vulgar and obscene book that defames the image of our tibetan compatriots. Books by ma jian translated in english include his novel, the noodle maker, and his short story collection about tibet, stick out your tongue, the book which prompted the chinese government to ban ma jians work and which set him on the road to exile. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Ma, jian, 1953, birth control, population policy publisher penguin books. If i was to rate this book entirely on the quality of the writing and the power of th. Exiled chinese writer ma s satirical novel after the dark road.
Kongzi is, according to family myth, a direct lineal descendant of confucius, and he is haunted by the. The dark road by ma jian feminism in india the dark road is neither set in dystopia nor can we put it down and go on with our lives with an offhanded. Flora drew is ma jians englishlanguage translator and interpreter. Its chilling, infuriating, and almost unbearable to read with its dark detail. The second book in cixin lius remembrance of earths past trilogy, the dark forest expands upon the foundation established in the three body problem. Ma jian books list of books by author ma jian thriftbooks. While ma jian wrote the dark road, he traveled through the rural backwaters of southwestern china to see how the state enforced the onechild policy far from the outside worlds prying eyes. The dark road by ma jian feminism in india the dark road is neither set in dystopia nor can we put it down and go on with our lives with an offhanded acknowledgment of the plight of women in china. Ma jian is a dissident chinese novelist, currently living in london, whose work is banned by his own government.
Click download or read online button to get the dark road book now. Set in the river towns and vast waste sites that line the banks of the yangtze, it tackles the grim issue of. Since the chinese edition of stick out your tongue first appeared in 1987, ma jians books have received a blanket ban in his birth country. Download or read the dark road 20 in pdf, epub formats. Ma jians new novel, the dark road, follows members of a.
It was only when i went to check what id said about that one prior to writing up this later offering, that i find no evidence in any of the usual quarters. The dark road book by ma jian buy a cheap copy of the dark road book by ma jian. Perhaps the most disturbing feature of mas story is the knowledge that you, the reader, can do nothing about it. Outspoken, brash and antiauthoritarian to the core, ma jians books have been labelled by chinese government censors as spiritual pollution. But when the people around you have lost their will to be.
Everything i was i carry with me, everything i will be lies waiting on the road ahead. Ma jians justified critique of chinas horrific human rights violations in the name of policy is plain to see across his body of work, and the thread is sustained here. But if a woman gets pregnant shes treated like a criminal. Buy the dark road by ma jian, flora drew from amazons fiction books store. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. Longlisted for the independent foreign fiction prize 2014 meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of china, is married to kongzi, a. In 20082009, he travelled extensively through the remote interior of china to research the dark road. Heres a quick look at some notable books new titles from the likes of casey cep, chiachia lin, juliet grame, ani difranco, and morethat are publishing this week. From the author of beijing coma, a compelling and shocking novel about the dark heart of chinas one child policy. Meili sees on the wet and creased walls the marks left by male intrusions, her inner organs no more than a palimpsest of the abuse inflicted upon her. From one of world literatures most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of chinas onechild policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from. Ma jian is the author of stick out your tongue, a collection of short stories that. Ma jians new novel, the dark road, follows members of a chinese peasant family as they go on the run, evading population enforcers and hoping to give birth to a son.
The dark road is painfully honest about the statesponsored subjugation of women. The dark road by ma jian was the 14th book ive read this year. To start your day or to end your day at night, this, by ma jian the dark road. We have only 150 staff but run one of the worlds top websites. The dark road is the story of one such normal family meili, a young peasant woman. Through the story, ma has a number of flashbacks detailing the bloody events of the cultural revolution of the 1960s, when he was a teenager. This river journey through boomtime chinas lower depths is worthy of dickens or hugo. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. The dark road by ma jian penguin books new zealand.
Buy this book in his latest novel after beijing coma, jian exposes the. Ma is adept at jolting our senses, transporting us, with a few words about a pain, a taste or an odor, to those parts of china, and millions of people, who exist on the far fringes of the economic miracle. The dark road by ma jian meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of china, is married to kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of confucius. Set in the river towns and vast waste sites that line the. The government persecute men, then men persecute their wives in return. A path through china 2001 is about his wanderings through remote areas of china from 198386 as a longhaired jobless vagabond. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Written while ma jian traveled the rural backwaters of southwestern china, the dark road is the story of one such family, who. The couple met in 1997 when she was working on a tv documentary about. This river journey through boomtime chinas lower depths is worthy of dickens or. Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of china, is m. When researching the dark road, ma posed as an official reporter to witness the forced sterilisations and abortions carried out by the government, and as a vagrant, living among the fugitives of.
Since the publication of his first book in 1987, all his work has been banned in. Ma jian has written a shocking novel, the dark road, that chronicles the inhumane policies of chinas onechild policy. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, kongzi gets meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. I would have sworn blind that i had read and enjoyed the previous offering red dust. A novel, by ma jian book as the ideal requirement is kind of lucks to have. Red dust, beijing coma and the dark road are all its a slight, dreamlike narrative featuring corrupt official ma daode, head of the china dream project. With the dark road, ma jian steers the spotlight away from chinas prosperous coastal cities and toward its impoverished hinterlands. The dark road is a novel, artfully translated by his wife flora drew, that does not mollify life under chinas regime, or its polluted skies, lands and waterways. Written while ma jian traveled the rural backwaters of southwestern china, the dark road is the story of one such family, who makes the radical choice to defy the crackdown. He fixes the readers gaze on the sordid plight of the. The new york times ma jians characterization is superb.