586 pages
English language
Published Feb. 17, 2008 by Chatto & Windus.
586 pages
English language
Published Feb. 17, 2008 by Chatto & Windus.
As the millennium draws near, Dai Wei, a pro-democracy protestor who was shot during the demonstration at Tiananmen Square in 1989, has been in a coma for almost a decade. As he wakes, he realises that the rich imaginative world afforded to him as a coma patient is a startling contrast with the death-in-life of the world outside.