Red Dust: A Path Through China
by Ma Jian
translated by Flora Drew
UK and Australia: Chatto & Windus, Pbk ISBN 0701169125; USA: Pantheon, Pbk ISBN 0375420592
In what one of the Kiriyama Prize judges dubbed,
"A Chinese On the Road," poet and artist Ma Jian tells the
story of his difficult trek through the Chinese hinterland
as a young man, from 1983-86. In joining the author on his
arduous journey, undertaken to escape from political and domestic
pressures, we glimpse a side of China seldom seen or written
about.
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