Beijing coma
By: Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780701178079; 9780701182670
Subjects: Translations into English; Social change; Fiction; Coma; Patients; Medical students; Social conditions; Chinese fiction; Political activity; History
Description: As the millennium draws near, Dai Wei, a pro-democracy protestor who was shot during the demonstration at Tiananmen Square in 1989, has been in a coma for almost a decade. As he wakes, he 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.
Notes: Translated from the Chinese.