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Beijing Coma by Ma Jian

Beijing Coma Ma Jian ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 720
ISBN: 9780312428365
Publisher: Picador

Jun 16, 2008 - The World: Your novel “Beijing Coma,” which centers on the 1989 student protest in Tiananmen Square, depicts the rebellion against the government as farcical rather than heroic. Dec 16, 2009 - Ma Jian's Beijing Coma (2008) is a fictionalised account of the events leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China, and its aftermath. Jan 15, 2013 - Ma Jian Here's something that might shock. OK, this is a large format paperback, so there aren't that many words per page - but it is still way, way too long. I tend to select my reading material based on the picture or detail on the book cover and this approach, though astonishing - works. Shot in the back of the head, he lies in a coma. Translated by Flora DewChatto & Windus £17.99, 587 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39. May 23, 2008 - Beijing Coma by Ma Jian Review by James Kynge Published: May 5 2008 06:31. Apr 2, 2009 - Also in the running for the £10,000 prize honouring fiction in translation is Beijing Coma, exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian's story of a Chinese student who is sent into a coma by a bullet during the Tiananmen Square massacre. Aug 18, 2013 - He also wrote a travel memoir Red Dust which won him the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 2002, The Noodle Maker and Beijing Coma which was a narration of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Jan 29, 2009 - Beijing Coma is nearly 600 pages long. Oct 23, 2009 - In Beijing Coma we see what happened in Tiananmen Square through the eyes of a student.