My Bodhi Tree by Hsien-Liang Chang

My Bodhi Tree by Hsien-Liang Chang

THE BOOK: 'A man searching for a cabbage finds he is pulling at a frozen corpse. Offered a bowl of hot water, he discovers a boiled baby curled up inside. Snapshots from the landscape of starvation cram My Bodhi Tree, the Chinese poet Zhang Xianliang's sequel to his bestselling Grass Soup. Here, Zhang covers one year out of the 22 he spent as a political prisoner : 1960, when Mao Tse-tung's policies triggered a famine claiming 30 million lives. A brilliant study of the psychology of survival, the book shows, too, how hunger dehumanised an entire generation, kickstarting the atrocities of the Cultural Revolution and after'. - New Scientist.

Zhang Xianliang, born in 1936, is the author of the internationally acclaimed Half of Man is Woman, Getting Used to Dying and Grass Soup. He lives in Ningxia, Western China. Martha Avery is based in Ulaanbaatar, where she is Director of the Publishing Program of the Soros Foundation in Mongolia. She continues to translate the work of Zhang Xianliang; her own most recent book is Women of Mongolia.

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ISBN 13	9780749386054
ISBN 10	0749386053
Titel	My Bodhi Tree
Autor	Hsien-Liang Chang
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	1997-07-21
Seitenanzahl	240
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