El Sueño Chino

«Los tiranos chinos nunca se han limitado a controlar la vida de la gente; siempre han perseguido penetrar en la mente de las personas y remodelarla desde dentro .

La Replica Popular China ha logrado desarrollar una tecnolog燰 que permite registrar los sue隳s de sus ciudadanos y sustituirlos por otros. El objetivo es promover el Sue隳 Chino de rejuvenecimiento nacional del presidente Xi Jinping. Ma Daode, un corrupto y lujurioso funcionario, ha sido nombrado director del proyecto despu廥 de d嶰adas de servicio leal al Partido. Pero justo cuando est?a punto de presentar un innovador implante cerebral que reemplazar?los recuerdos traum嫢icos con un sue隳 colectivo de supremac燰 nacional, su cordura comienza a desmoronarse. A su mente acuden dolorosos flashbacks: pesadillas de la Revoluci鏮 Cultural que amenazar嫕 con destruir su aspiraci鏮 a un futuro glorioso.

Esta f墎ula oscuramente c鏔ica es una visi鏮 dist鏕ica de la represi鏮, la supresi鏮 de la Historia y la amnesia impuesta por el Estado chino; una inquebrantable s嫢ira ambientada en la China actual de la mano de quien, seg el Financial Times, «no en vano ha sido llamado el Orwell y el Solzhenitsyn de la literatura china .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable "may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma's talent for probing the country's darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party's moral failings" (Mike Ives, The New York Times).

Called "Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful! by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, 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.

Exposing 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, China Dream is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state-imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.