A Book Review on New Books by 马建 and 廖亦武

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Emily Parker, Sign of Protest; Two Chinese dissidents explore the endurance of the human spirit in the face of state-sanctioned cruelty. New York Times, Aug 4, 2013 (in the section Book Review)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/0 ... -hundred-songs.html
("But Liao later realizes that brutality isn’t confined to soldiers * * * After his release from prison, he became even more disillusioned with his countrymen")

My comment:
(a) This is a book review on two books:
(i) MA Jian 马建, The Dark Road (translated by Flora DREW), Penguin, 2013.
(ii) LIAO Yiwu, For a Song and a Hundred Songs; A poet’s journey through a Chinese prison (translated by Wenguang HUANG 黃 文廣). New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

New Harvest is an imprint of Amazon Publishing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Publishing

(c) Ma Jian's is a fiction, which I never read. LIao Yiwu's is a memoir. I recommend the second half of the book review, which is about Mr Liao's memoir.
(d) Liao "help[ed] to make a film, "Requiem" 安魂

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