Ma Jian has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Red Dust.
China Dream
Summary
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Blending fact and fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people's private dreams with President Xi Jinping's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. This darkly comic fable exposes the damage inflicted on a nation's soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth. It is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state-imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.
©2018 Ma Jian; English translation copyright 2018 by Flora Drew (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
The Dark Road
Summary
Meili, a young peasant woman living in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a distant descendant of Confucius. Desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, the family escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life.
©2013 Ma Jian (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd
La via oscura
Summary
Costretto all'esilio dal duca di Lu, Confucio disse: "Se la mia strada finisce, salirò su una zattera e mi lascerò portare verso il mare". E così Kongzi, settantaseiesimo discendente diretto del grande filosofo, fugge con la moglie incinta e la figlia quando la Squadra della pianificazione familiare entra nel villaggio per sterilizzare con la forza tutte le donne fertili e interrompere le gravidanze di quelle che hanno già un figlio. Mentre la Cina si avvia a diventare la prima potenza mondiale, Kongzi e Meili vanno alla deriva lungo lo Yangtze, portando il lettore in un disperato e poetico viaggio attraverso il paesaggio che si trasforma e la tragedia provocata dall'esperimento di ingegneria sociale concepito per contenere, a costo di qualsiasi violenza sul corpo delle donne, la crescita demografica del paese. Dal coraggioso autore di "Pechino in coma", le cui opere sono tuttora bandite in Cina, un nuovo romanzo che racconta il volto oscuro del miracolo economico cinese. >> Questo audiobook in edizione integrale vi è offerto in esclusiva per Audible ed è disponibile solamente in formato audio digitale.
©2015 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore S.r.l. Tradotto da Katia Bagnoli (P)2017 Audible Studios
Red Dust
Summary
In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Deng Xiaoping was clamping down on 'Spiritual Pollution'; young people were rebelling. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself.
©2001 Ma Jian (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd