The Dark Road - Hardcover

Jian, Ma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594205027 ISBN 13: 9781594205026

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2013

Synopsis

The Chinese dissident author of Stick Out Your Tongue explores the human cost of China's one-child policy as reflected by a rural family on the run from the state, describing how a cultural imperative to have a son prompted their decision to conceive a second child before becoming subject to cruel government practices of enforced abortion and sterilization.

About this title

Review:

"Unforgettable" (Stephen Abell Sunday Telegraph)

"The Dark Road follows the river-borne escape of fugitives from the one-child policy. An ill-matched couple’s flight along anarchic backwaters leads them into a raw, brutal, brilliantly depicted boom-time underworld" (Boyd Tonkin Independent)

Book Description:

From the author of Beijing Coma, a compelling and shocking novel about the dark heart of China's One Child Policy.

Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1594205027
• ISBN 13: 9781594205026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 375