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Stick Out Your Tongue

By Ma Jian

Stick Out Your Tongue Essays & Short Stories

Stick Out Your Tongue

By Ma Jian

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When Stick Out Your Tongue was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English, readers get a rare glimpse of Tibet through Chinese eyes. In this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, and hears the story of a young female lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In stories both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and macabre, seductive and perverse, Stick Out Your Tongue offers a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
104
Release Date:
2007-07-24
Publication Date:
2007-07-24
Publisher:
St. Martins Press-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0312426909
ISBN13:
9780312426903
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
143 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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