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.
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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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Medium Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. 163 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Secker & Warburg, 1995. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A diary written in a Chinese labour reform camp in 1960, where one third of the inmates died. The author, a survivor, considers the experience to be his "bodhi tree" - in Buddhist terms "the place of enlightenment". His plea is that the world can learn from the past. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0436203235. ISBN/EAN: 9780436203237. Inventory No: 16040095. Seller Inventory # 16040095
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