Stick Out Your Tongue: Stories

When Stick Out Your Tongue was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English, readers get a rare glimpse of Tibet through Chinese eyes. In this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, and hears the story of a young female lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In stories both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and macabre, seductive and perverse, Stick Out Your Tongue offers a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet.

Author: Ma Jian
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 07/24/2007
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780312426903

About the Author

Ma Jian is the author of Red Dust and The Noodle Maker. He lives in London.

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