My Bodhi Tree
My Bodhi Tree
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Summary
Sequel to the best-selling "Grass Soup", this is a continuation of Zhang Xiangling's account of his experiences in a Chinese Labour Reform Camp during the last months of 1960, when a devasting famine killed some 30 million of his countrymen.
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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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780749386054 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749386053 |
| Title | My Bodhi Tree |
| Author | Hsien-Liang Chang |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1997-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |