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The Dark Road Book

If a panda gets pregnant the entire nation celebrates. But if a woman gets pregnant she's treated like a criminal. What kind of country is this? Meili a young peasant woman is married to Kongzi a village school teacher and a distant descendant of the great sage Confucius. They have a daughter but desperate to carry on his illustrious line Kongzi gets Meili pregnant without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm into the village to arrest violators of the population control policy mother father and daughter are forced to make a fugitive life on the river. Meili dreams of reaching a place called Heaven a vast stinking wilderness of toxic waste where the men eventually turn infertile and the family planning officers don't dare to go. But as their troubled quest to give birth to a son continues it becomes clear that Kongzi and Meili are not just raging against the state -- they are at war with one another.Read More

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    Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life. For years they drift south through the poisoned waterways and ruined landscapes of China, picking up work as they go along, scavenging for necessities and flying from police detection. As Meili's body continues to be invaded by her husband and assaulted by the state, she fights to regain control of her fate and that of her unborn child.

  • 0701187530
  • 9780701187538
  • Ma Jian
  • 25 April 2013
  • Chatto & Windus
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 368
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