Beijing Coma
Ma Jian's 2008 novel of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, narrated by a man left in a coma, translated by Flora Drew.
Beijing Coma is a 2008 novel by Ma Jian, translated from Chinese by Flora Drew. It tells the story of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests from the point of view of Dai Wei, a participant left in a coma by the violent end of the protests. The comatose narrator stands for the ability to remember and the inability to act. The novel is banned in China and won the 2009 Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award.
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