- Published: 1 November 2018
- ISBN: 9781473557741
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
China Dream
- Published: 1 November 2018
- ISBN: 9781473557741
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
A master of inimitable humour. Always hilarious, thought-provoking, and immensely moving
Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans
Mr Ma's critique of the totalitarian mindset recalls that of Soviet-era dissidents...tragic and elegiac...garnished with both horror and tenderness... A hand-grenade of a book
The Economist
Creepily Orwellian... makes Mao’s Cultural Revolution look like minor tinkering
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday
A biting and humane novel of stunning concision... Bleakly funny, incisive, stinging and – in its most destabilising passages – gut-wrenching
Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Guardian
A savage satire of Chinese authoritarianism and censorship... Believable and brutal, this is Ma Jian’s boldest…most elegiac work’
Catherine Taylor, Financial Times
This must be one of the liveliest novels about brainwashing ever written… For all the horror, Ma sees freedom in confronting the true nightmare of the past, perceiving that it is the only way to liberate our futures
Alex Peake-Tomkinson, Spectator
Crackles with bruising satire …China Dream may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s darkest corners
Mike Ives, New York Times