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Overviewwashed up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China: illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing. En route, he clashes with a stellar cast of people-traffickers, prostitutes and TV execs. But then the unquiet dead begin to intervene: ghosts from his own past and the past of Chinese Communism; the 'spirits that hover three feet above our heads' of Chinese folklore. Rare Earth is a story about love, journalism, ghosts, metallurgy, vintage militaria and large motorcycles set in the badlands of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. It is about the west's inability to understand the East; one man's epic journey across a dying landscape, where 'thousands of pairs of eyes peer beyond grimy windowpanes into the moonless sky, looking for something better.' Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul MasonPublisher: Bedford Square Publishers Imprint: No Exit Press Edition: UK ed. Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.329kg ISBN: 9781842438466ISBN 10: 1842438468 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 19 September 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe first novel from Newsnight's economics editor is an enjoyable romp through China -- Julia Lovell * Guardian * A stereotype-junking headlong rush into farcical realism -- Paul Simon * Morning Star * Febrile and enjoyable first novel -- Julia Lovell * Guardian * A jaw-dropping, action-packed, sex-fuelled and often hilarious adventure story. Read it, and gasp -- Genevieve Fox * Daily Mail * I had a lot of fun with this odd, clever little book -- Warren Ellis Author InformationPaul Mason is the award winning economics editor of the BBC current affairs programme Newsnight and author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed, an account of the 2008 financial crisis and Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere : The New Global Revolutions. This is his first novel. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |