Beijing coma, paperback/ma jian

A strange and seminal novel about the Tiananmen Sqaure protests.

Dai Wei is a medical student who is caught by a bullet whilst protesting and falls into a deep coma for almost a decade, waking to find the China he once knew has changed, irrevocably and forever.

A story of politics, madness, mothers and dreamworlds, this is an acknowledged modern masterpiece of Chinese literature.

Made my heart thump.

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