My Bodhi Tree
Hsien-Liang Chang(Author)
Minerva (Publisher)
Published on 21. July 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7493-8605-4 (ISBN)
Description
THE BOOK: 'A man searching for a cabbage finds he is pulling at a frozen corpse. Offered a bowl of hot water, he discovers a boiled baby curled up inside. Snapshots from the landscape of starvation cram My Bodhi Tree, the Chinese poet Zhang Xianliang's sequel to his bestselling Grass Soup. Here, Zhang covers one year out of the 22 he spent as a political prisoner : 1960, when Mao Tse-tung's policies triggered a famine claiming 30 million lives. A brilliant study of the psychology of survival, the book shows, too, how hunger dehumanised an entire generation, kickstarting the atrocities of the Cultural Revolution and after'. - New Scientist.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 126 mm
Weight
171 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7493-8605-4 (9780749386054)
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Persons
Zhang Xianliang, born in 1936, is the author of the internationally acclaimed Half of Man is Woman, Getting Used to Dying and Grass Soup. He lives in Ningxia, Western China. Martha Avery is based in Ulaanbaatar, where she is Director of the Publishing Program of the Soros Foundation in Mongolia. She continues to translate the work of Zhang Xianliang; her own most recent book is Women of Mongolia.