Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - Brossura

Bo, Ma

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ISBN 10: 0140159428 ISBN 13: 9780140159424

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1996

Riassunto

First banned in its native land, this earthy, unflinching memoir has become one of the biggest bestsellers in the history of China.
 
In 1968, a fervent young Red Guard joined the army of hotheaded adolescents who trekked to Inner Mongolia to spread the Cultural Revolution. After gaining a reputation as a brutal abuser of the local herd owners and nomads, Ma Bo casually criticized a Party Leader. Denounced as an “active counterrevolutionary” and betrayed by his friends, the idealistic youth was brutally beaten and imprisoned.
 
Charged with passion, never doctrinaire, Blood Red Sunset is a startlingly vivid and personal narrative that opens a window on the psyche of totalitarian excess that no other work of history can provide. This is a tale of ideology and disillusionment, a powerful work of political and literary importance.
 
“A deceptively straightforward story carried forward by deep currents of insight.”—The Washington Post
 
“A genuine, no-holds-barred, unadorned piece of writing...echoing the realities of contemporary China.”—Liu Binyan, The New York Times Book Review

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140159428
• ISBN 13: 9780140159424
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384