After his release from the prisons of China's gulag, a writer travels to the West to lecture, to write and to visit relatives and lovers. Having known only the harsh realities of captivity, his life becomes distorted against his terrifying and vivid memories. This novel is autobiographical.

Getting Used to Dying

Zhang, Xianliang

Flamingo

Half of Man Is Woman

An almost autobiographical tale of a college graduate's punishment for writing poetry during the Cultural Revolution resulting in exile to China's Siberia. Published in China in 1985, the book caused controversy due to it's frank views on sex, and life as a prisoner.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Putnam~trade

<p>A love story set in a Chinese labor camp during the Cultural Revolution follows Zhang, a rightist poet made impotent, and Huang, a woman jailed for promiscuity, and their passionate, ill-fated love affair</p>

Avery, Martha

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Half of Man Is Woman: A Novel

Literary

W.W.Norton&Company

My Bodhi Tree

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

Half of man is woman

VIKING

<p>Former political prisoner Zhang Xianliang recovered from the authorities a diary he had kept while in a labour camp during the 1960s. This book is a detailed annotation to the terse entries in that diary, describing the conditions the author endured and acts of kindness that kept his hope alive.</p>

Grass Soup

Minerva

Mimosa : en Chine aujourd'hui, un amour bouleversant

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