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Jun 13, 2013 · The Dark Road is the tale of Kongzi, seventy-sixth descendant of Confucius, his wife Meilie, and their daughter Nannan. It's about the brutalities of modern Chinese life, the one child policy, and the environmental chaos found there.
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When Greta, a young girl living in Nazi Germany, reads that the nearby women's concentration camp is hiring guards, she sees it as a chance to find her place in the world and provide for her sister Lise.
Jun 13, 2013 · Hardcover – June 13, 2013. by Ma Jian (Author), Flora Drew (Translator) 4.1 177 ratings. See all formats and editions. From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reach.
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Jun 11, 2013 · Listen here. Ma Jian’s new novel, “The Dark Road,” follows members of a Chinese peasant family as they go on the run, evading population enforcers and hoping to give birth to a son.
The Dark Road is a haunting and indelible portrait of the tragedies befalling women and families at the hands of China’s one-child policy and of the human spirit’s capacity to endure even the most brutal cruelty.
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May 2, 2013 · The Dark Road is an angrier, more openly confrontational novel than its predecessors. Set in the river towns and vast waste sites that line the banks of the Yangtze, it tackles the grim issue of ...
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Sep 17, 2019 · Language. English. 375 pages ; 22 cm. From one of world literature's most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China's one-child policy Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary ...
