Las puertas del parai so
By: Yiyun Li ; traduccio n de Laura Marti n del Dios
Contributors: Martin del Dios, Laura
Publisher: Lumen
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Barcelona
Language: spa
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9788426417572
Subjects: Politics and government; Communism; Poli tica; Fiction; Vida urbana; Historia; Condiciones sociales; Novela; Comunismo; Social conditions; Pena capital; History; City and town life; Capital punishment
Work titles: Vagrants
Description: In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope, and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. Sumei, a mother of a young child, is sentenced to death as an anti-Communist activist. They are all taken on a painful journey; from one young woman's death to another. We follow the pain of Gu Shan's parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families. Even those who seem unconnected to the tragedy -- an eleven-year-old boy seeking fame and glory, a nineteen-year-old village idiot in love with a young and deformed girl, and old couple making a living by scavenging the town's garbage cans -- are caught up in remorseless turn of events.
Notes: Titulo original : The vagrants.