{"product_id":"9781429931250","title":"Stick Out Your Tongue: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eTibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. \u003ci\u003eStick Out Your Tongue \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover on the wall of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between dream and reality becomes confused.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen this book was published in Chinese in 1997, the government accused Ma Jian of \"harming the fraternal solidarity of the national minorities,\" and a blanket ban was placed on his future work. With its publication in English, including a new afterword by the author that sets the book in its personal and political context, readers get a rare glimpse of Tibet through Chinese eyes—and a window on the imagination of one of China's foremost writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122514739440,"sku":"9781429931250","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429931250_p0.jpg?v=1769901675","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429931250","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}