Ma Jian and Flora Drew with Boyd Tonkin - World Literature Weekend

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Recorded20 Jun 2009

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A few days after the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Ma Jian discussed his Tiananmen novel Beijing Coma with the Independent's literary editor Boyd Tonkin, interspersed with extracts from the novel read by his translator Flora Drew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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