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 CULTURE BEAT | "Summer of '68" August 09, 2008

Best-Selling Books

Four books about China reviewed by Susan Olasky

Beijing Coma | Ma Jian and Flora Drew

This angry, dense novel begins and ends with Da Wei, a university student shot in the head during the Tiananmin Square massacre, about to awake from a 10-year coma. Although he's called a vegetable, he's aware of scents, voices, and visitors: They trigger vivid, often earthy and sometimes sexual memories from his childhood and days at -university, especially the period leading up to the 1989 crackdown.

Writer Ma Jian portrays a China with amnesia toward its brutal recent past. Everyone is out to get rich, but Da Wei's memories keep alive the harsh episodes: infants murdered to satisfy the one-child -policy, forced cannibalism against enemies of the state during the cultural revolution, students crushed by tanks.

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