Bullets and Opium

From the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch) comes a raw, evocative, and unforgettable look at the Tiananmen Square massacre through the eyes of those who were there.

For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing stories are now finally revealed in this gripping and masterful work of investigative journalism.

De la poetul premiat, disident si „unul dintre cei mai originali si remarcabili scriitori chinezi ai timpului nostru” (Philip Gourevitch) vine o privire bruta, evocatoare si de neuitat asupra masacrului din Piata Tiananmen prin ochii celor care erau acolo . Timp de peste sapte ani, Liao Yiwu - un maestru al literaturii chineze contemporane, incarcerat si persecutat ca contrarevolutionar pana cand a fugit din tara in 2011 - a intervievat in secret supravietuitorii masacrului devastator din Piata Tiananmen din 1989.