{"product_id":"the-dark-road-9780143125402","title":"The Dark Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ma Jian\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Family Life - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of world literature's most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China's one-child policy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFar away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: \"normal\" parents are permitted by the state to have only a single child. Written while Ma Jian traveled the rural backwaters of southwestern China, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Road\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of one such family, who makes the radical choice to defy the crackdown. A haunting and indelible portrait of the tragedies befalling women and families at the hands of China's one-child policy and of the human spirit's capacity to endure even the most brutal cruelty, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Road\u003c\/i\u003e is also a celebration of life, and of the fierce beauty born of courageous resistance to injustice.","brand":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408464928919,"sku":"9780143125402","price":1681.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143125402.webp?v=1767149217","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-dark-road-9780143125402","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}