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´One of China´s greatest living novelists´ Guardian

Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping´s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a microchip that will be implanted into the brain of every citizen to replace all painful recollections with a collective dream of national supremacy, his sanity begins to unravel. Plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, his nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future.

This darkly comic fable is a dystopian vision of repression and state-enforced amnesia set not in the future, but in China today. ´Excoriating...Not for nothing has Ma been called both the Orwell and Solzhenitsyn of Chinese literature´ A Financial Times Book of the Year´Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegot, sort of: powerful!´
Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

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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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