Getting Used to Dying: A NovelFor years, Zhang Xianliang has been in and out of prison and labor camps while achieving recognition as one of China's foremost writers, and this powerful autobiographical novel and insider's portrait brilliantly chronicles what it means to be Chinese in China today. |
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