Description:"Moving...a memorable series of portraits of the working-class people who defended Tiananmen Square." —The New York Review of Books
"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Liao Yiwu's searing account of what happened in Beijing on June 4, 1989, and its lasting impact, doggedly collected from witnesses, demands attention." —South China Morning Post
From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time" (Philip Gourevitch) comes a raw, evocative, and unforgettable look at the Tiananmen Square massacre through the eyes of those who were there.
For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a...