Ma Jian: Stick Out Your Tongue, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Stick Out Your Tongue
- Translation:
- Flora Drew
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing, 01/2007
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099481331
- Item number:
- 5066473
- Volume:
- 96 Pages
- Weight:
- 76 g
- Format:
- 199 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 6 mm
- Release date:
- 4.1.2007
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
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 of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between fact and fiction becomes confused and the man is drawn deep into an alien culture he knew nothing about, and which haunts his dreams.
Banned in China in 1987, Stick Out Your Tongue, is the hugely influential book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile.
Biography (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.
