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Ma Jian tackles the absurdities of Xi Jinping´s ´China Dream´ propaganda in this short, punchy, accessible novel about a party official losing his grip on reality

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A poetic and unflinching fable about tyranny, guilt, and the erasure of history, by the banned Chinese writer hailed as ´China´s Solzhenitsyn´.

In seven dream-like episodes, Ma Jian charts the psychological disintegration of a Chinese provincial leader who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past. From exile, Ma Jian shoots an arrow at President Xi Jinping´s ´China Dream´ propaganda, creating a biting satire of totalitarianism that reveals what happens to a nation when it is blinded by materialism and governed by violence and lies. Blending tragic and absurd reality with myth and fantasy, this dystopian novel is a portrait not of an imagined future, but of China today.

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"A master of inimitable humour. Always hilarious, thought-provoking, and immensely moving" Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans

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Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China. He is the author of seven novels, a travel memoir, three story collections and two essay collections. He has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since the publication of his first book in 1987, all his work has been banned in China. He now lives in exile in London

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