- History, Fiction, Coma, Patients
Dai Wei lies in a coma after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier. As the minute-by-minute chronicling of the lead-up to his shooting becomes even more intense, the reader is caught in a gripping, emotional journey where the boundaries between life and death are increasingly blurred.
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Grave, earnest, relentless and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Jian Ma
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 586
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Vintage Books USA
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780701178079
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