Stick Out Your Tongue

"Exquisite, earthy stories... Ma writes brilliantly" Independent "Harsh, humane... Completely effective" Daily Telegraph "At the heart of Ma Jian's stories, there is both humanity and a piercing, if painful, literary truth" Guardian "Ma Jian...creates a stunning vision of a culture too easily and dangerously airbrushed into the ideals of others" Scotland on Sunday "Deadpan yet shot through with subtle empathy and flashes of humour, surreal and unearthly yet steeped in a physicality so immediate that I flinched on at least one occasion. Beautiful...lean style...not a single wasted word...oustanding" Irish Times