Rare Earth Paperback / softback
by Paul Mason
Paperback / softback
Description
A washed up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China.
Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China: illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing. En route, he clashes with a stellar cast of people-traffickers, prostitutes and TV execs.
But then the unquiet dead begin to intervene: ghosts from his own past and the past of Chinese Communism; the 'spirits that hover three feet above our heads' of Chinese folklore. Rare Earth is a story about love, journalism, ghosts, metallurgy, vintage militaria and large motorcycles set in the badlands of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia.
It is about the west's inability to understand the East; one man's epic journey across a dying landscape, where 'thousands of pairs of eyes peer beyond grimy windowpanes into the moonless sky, looking for something better.'
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
- Publication Date:19/09/2012
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- ISBN:9781842438466
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
- Publication Date:19/09/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781842438466
