Ma Jian Release Date: 09 June 2009 Format: Paperback Pages: 703 ISBN: 9780312428365 ISBN-10: 0312428367
Dai Wei, a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. But as the millennium draws near, he begins to emerge from unconsciousness, and to sense the massive changes in his country. At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, and a seminal story of the Tiananmen Square protests, "Beijing Coma "is Ma Jian's masterpiece.