Description
A Western gaze often turns Tibet into a dream—yet in this five-part collection, Ma Jian strips away romance to confront what domination leaves behind. Moving through a series of tightly linked stories, he evokes a landscape of sky burials, exile, and intimate brutality, where memory and survival collide in images of loss, violence, and death. The book’s themes—political erasure, cultural displacement, and the moral cost of witnessing—are rendered with Ma Jian’s stark, lyrical intensity, blending reportage-like immediacy with haunting, almost unbearable tenderness. Brief but devastating, it reads like a companion to his earlier work, deepening the journey from personal encounter to hard-won truth.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2013
96 pages
ISBN: 9781446414729
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
eng
Translation
From: zho
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian.