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.
Vorwort
Autorentext
Vorwort
From the author of Beijing Coma, a compelling and shocking novel about the dark heart of China's One Child Policy.
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014.
Autorentext
Ma Jian
Titel
The Dark Road
Autor
Übersetzer
EAN
9781448113279
ISBN
978-1-4481-1327-9
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
25.04.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.44 MB
Anzahl Seiten
368
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch
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