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Title:Beijing Coma
Author:Ma Jian
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 586 pages
Published:May 27th 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Categories:Cultural. China. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asia
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Beijing Coma Hardcover | Pages: 586 pages
Rating: 3.85 | 1372 Users | 197 Reviews

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Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier’s bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney to fund special treatment from Master Yao, a member of the outlawed Falun Gong sect. But during a government crackdown, the Master was arrested, and Dai Wai’s mother—who had fallen in love with him—lost her mind.

As the millennium draws near, a sparrow flies through the window and lands on Dai Wei’s naked chest, a sign that he must emerge from his coma. But China has also undergone a massive transformation while Dai Wei lay unconscious. As he prepares to take leave of his old metal bed, Dai Wei realizes that the rich, imaginative world afforded to him as a coma patient is a startling contrast with the death-in-life of the world outside.

At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian’s masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and deep rage, this extraordinary novel confirms his place as one of the world’s most significant living writers.

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Original Title: 北京植物人
ISBN: 0374110174 (ISBN13: 9780374110178)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2009), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2009), The Athens Prize for Literature - Περιοδικό (δέ)κατα (2010)

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Ratings: 3.85 From 1372 Users | 197 Reviews

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A masterwork. 4.5 For a Westerner, the story of how the Tiananmen demonstrations and tragedy unfolded is told in too much detail. [ Note from other readers here, how many gave up on it. ] But please readjust perspective: this novel of what happened was not written for a lightweight, TV and video brained audience in the West. This not entertainment. It is intended as an extended metaphor of past and present, and the detail works if one accepts that.

Overall I liked this, and found it particularly exciting at the end. The book would have been a lot better if it had been about 200 pages shorter. Initially I was much more taken by the background story what had happened to the family, especially the father, in the past. As this rolled into Tiananmen Square, things in the background slowed way down, and I found myself fascinated by the coma story, especially the incredible sensitivity to sounds and smells. There seemed to be a substantial

Ma Jian's epic masterpiece about the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests will be present in your mind long after you put the book down-- if you can do so. Dai Wei, a PhD student at Beijing University was struck by a bullet during the massacre that followed the student protests. As he lies in bed immobile for years, he lives in his memories of the past. He also silently observes everything around his big iron bed, trapped within his body. His mother, apartment, friends, and body break down around him

This book took me a long time to read though not through lack of interest. It is a dense detailed account of the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 told from the point of view of Dai Wei who is in a coma throughout after being shot that night. Whilst I have some minor criticisms of the telling of the tale I am glad I perserved through what I perceived slightly dull bits as it truely is an amazing novel and an achievement by Ma Jian of attempting to tell the truth. My

Overly long and overly ambitious take on China, through the bloodylens of the Tianamenen Square 1989 events. While that is the focalpoint, the story spans long before and long after. Working in the history of brutality of the Cultural Revolution, set the table for theoutrage at the events of 1989, but the chaos and in-bred ennuiof the "leaders" made for a jarring juxtaposition.Less successful a juxtaposition, the text switching senteces of poetic ramblings from some alleged ancient manuscript



Excellent fictionalisation of the tiananmen square incident in 1989. surprisingly un-romantic and it does a half decent job of showing that the demonstrations were a bit of a mess really but were a massive release of pent up emotion and hurting of a society. a refreshingly different style of book too with no chapters as such but lots of different length sections. much more like life. A really good read and so much more grown up than red dust.