Beijing coma
By: Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew
Publisher: Vintage; Vintage Books USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 666
ISBN-13: 9780099481348
Subjects: Social change; Fiction; Coma; Patients; Medical students; Social conditions; Political activity; History
Description: Dai Wei lies in a coma after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier. As the minute-by-minute chronicling of the lead-up to his shooting becomes even more intense, the reader is caught in a gripping, emotional journey where the boundaries between life and death are increasingly blurred.
Notes: Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2008.

Translated from the Chinese.