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China Dream

China Dream

Jian, Ma
Drew, Flora

Paperback

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1640093869
ISBN13: 9781640093867
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Jun 9 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma's talent for probing the country's darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party's moral failings (Mike Ives, The New York Times).

Called Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful! by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people's private dreams with President Xi Jinping's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future.

Exposing the damage inflicted on a nation's soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth, China Dream is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state-imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.

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