Overview
«Los tiranos chinos nunca se han limitado a controlar la vida de la gente; siempre han perseguido penetrar en la mente de las personas y remodelarla desde dentro».
La República Popular China ha logrado desarrollar una tecnología que permite registrar los sueños de sus ciudadanos y sustituirlos por otros. El objetivo es promover el Sueño Chino de rejuvenecimiento nacional del presidente Xi Jinping. Ma Daode, un corrupto y lujurioso funcionario, ha sido nombrado director del proyecto después de décadas de servicio leal al Partido. Pero justo cuando está a punto de presentar un innovador implante cerebral que reemplazará los recuerdos traumáticos con un sueño colectivo de supremacía nacional, su cordura comienza a desmoronarse. A su mente acuden dolorosos flashbacks: pesadillas de la Revolución Cultural que amenazarán con destruir su aspiración a un futuro glorioso.
Esta fábula oscuramente cómica es una visión distópica de la represión, la supresión de la Historia y la amnesia impuesta por el Estado chino; una inquebrantable sátira ambientada en la China actual de la mano de quien, según el Financial Times, «no en vano ha sido llamado el Orwell y el Solzhenitsyn de la literatura china».
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable “may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party’s moral failings” (Mike Ives, The New York Times).
Called “Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people's private dreams with President Xi Jinping's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future.
Exposing the damage inflicted on a nation's soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth, China Dream is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state–imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.
This book title, El sueño chino / China Dream, ISBN: 9788439737902, by Ma Jian, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (May 10, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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