The dark road

By Jian Ma

Subjects: Translations into English, Fiction, general, Families, Only child, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Birth control, China, fiction, Population policy

Description: "Far away from the Chinese economic miracle...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. 'The Dark Road' is the story of one such family..."--inside front cover.