Repression

is the story of the bloody crackdown of June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square told by the surviving spirit of the comatose body of Dai Wei, who for ten years remembers the events of his life, especially the frantic struggle some students loving democracy -this about two months-, trying to be heard, and to bend with ridiculously paltry resources -grève hunger, sit-in, building a statue of democracy face portrait Mao, debates, manifestations- implacable dictatorship of Communist China -a unshakable monolith and without soul-states and its failure that forced end in a bloodbath; son of a virtuoso violinist -Income to liberation to build a new China, accused of Rightist and sent for twenty years in rééducation- camps and a fervent Communist opera singer until she understood that she was abused by a cruel regime; This novel is a final indictment of a regime that has known that oppress, destroy any dissonant voice call to denounce -Dai Wei was entitled to his first arrest at age 15 and his first autocritique- and massacre every spirit free; Mao's repression-including the cultural revolution to millions of morts- this massacre -under Deng Xiaoping- students, workers, and students, as China opens up to the market economy, and advocates the selfishness money-king, without calling into question as the hard party line which prohibits all libertarian thought, especially democratic; the novel ends whilst the Olympics are preparing, and for that greatness of this continent is recognized expropriates it is destroyed, we rebuilt a modern, glitzy capital, still the names of the people! Great novel, painful and safe, lyricism sprinkled taking a poetry of despair, whose fate upset because there is no hope. Almost 900 pages. citation p 733 "(...) When I went to fetch the kindergarten, his mistress made me big eyes and said," Your father is a rightist. We need you to teach your little brother not as a smile. He's always smiling, even when I sent the corner. "
ps I highly recommend watching the movie by Lou Ye Summer Palace a passion whose background the 1989 revolt.