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Libri antichi e moderni

Ma Jian

Beijing Coma (ISBN:0099481340)

Vintage, United Kingdom, 2009,

8,00 €

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Autore
Ma Jian
Editori
Vintage, United Kingdom, 2009
Soggetto
CINA China Chine
Descrizione
S
Sovracoperta
No
Stato di conservazione
Come nuovo
Legatura
Brossura
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

Dai Wei is a medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Caught by a soldier's bullet, he falls into a deep coma; as soon as the hospital authorities discover he is an activist, his mother is forced to take him home. She allows pharmacists access to Dai Wei's body and sells his urine and his left kidney to fund special treatment from Master Yao, a member of the outlawed Falun Gong sect. But during a government crackdown, the Master is arrested and Dai Wei's mother - who has fallen in love with him - loses her mind.The millennium draws near and Dai Wei has been in a coma for almost a decade. A sparrow flies through the window and lands on his naked chest; it is a sign that Dai Wei must emerge from his dry cocoon. But China has also undergone a massive transformation in the time that he has been absent. As he prepares to take leave of his old metal bed, Dai Wei realises that the rich imaginative world afforded to him as a coma patient is a startling contrast with the death-in-life of the world outside.