# The Dark Road

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- Book: [The Dark Road](https://www.bookquiver.com/ma-jian/the-dark-road) ([The Dark Road.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ma-jian/the-dark-road.md))
- Authors: [Ma Jian](https://www.bookquiver.com/ma-jian)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-540-2
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2014-08-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing...