Stick Out Your Tongue
Stories
$29.81
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2007
Summary
The hugely influential book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile from China.
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099481331 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099481332 |
| Author: | Ma Jian, Flora Drew |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 74g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 5mm |
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What They're Saying
Critics Review
Exquisite, earthy stories… Ma writes brilliantly * Independent *
At the heart of Ma Jian’s stories, there is both humanity and a piercing, if painful, literary truth * Guardian *
Ma Jian…creates a stunning vision of a culture too easily and dangerously airbrushed into the ideals of others * Scotland on Sunday *
All [these stories] are fascinating windows on the soul of a dying people * The Times *
Deadpan yet shot through with subtle empathy and flashes of humour, surreal and unearthly yet steeped in a physicality so immediate that I flinched on at least one occasion. Beautiful…lean style…not a single wasted word…oustanding * Irish Times *
Harsh, humane… Completely effective * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Ma Jian
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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