The Dark Road
Nominiert: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014, Nominiert: I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2015
(Sprache: Englisch)
'These days, you have to pay the government nine thousand yuan to be born and two thousand yuan to die, says Father, taking off his glasses and rubbing his tired eyes. The gates of hell aren t somewhere far beneath us. They re right here on earth.
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'These days, you have to pay the government nine thousand yuan to be born and two thousand yuan to die, says Father, taking off his glasses and rubbing his tired eyes. The gates of hell aren t somewhere far beneath us. They re right here on earth.
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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. 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. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life.
For years they drift south through the poisoned waterways and ruined landscapes of China, picking up work as they go along, scavenging for necessities and flying from police detection. As Meili's body continues to be invaded by her husband and assaulted by the state, she fights to regain control of her fate and that of her unborn child.
Autoren-Porträt von Ma Jian
Ma Jian, geb. 1953 in Qingdao, lebte als Schriftsteller und Maler in Beijing. Im Jahr 1976 ist er von Qingdao nach Peking gezogen. Nachdem in der VR China einige seiner Werke verboten wurden ging er 1986 nach Hong Kong, wo er das Verlagshaus Hong Kong New Century Press gründete. Im Jahr 1997 zog er nach Deutschland und unterrichtete dort Moderne chinesische Literatur. Zwei Jahre später zog er nach England, wo er heute noch lebt.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ma Jian
- 2013, 368 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 3,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzung:Drew, Flora
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0701187549
- ISBN-13: 9780701187545
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.04.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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