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Title For a song and a hundred songs : a poet's journey through a Chinese prison / Liao Yiwu ; translated from the Chinese by Wenguang Huang.
Author Liao, Yiwu, 1958-
Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2013.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B LIAO    Check Shelves
Description xx, 404 p. ; 24 cm.
Note "New harvest."
Contents Foreword by Herta Møller -- Preface -- pt. 1. The wandering poet -- pt. 2. The investigation center -- pt. 3. The detention center -- pt. 4. The prison.
Summary From the renowned Chinese poet in exile comes a gorgeous and shocking account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests.
Subject Liao, Yiwu, 1958-
Prisoners -- China -- Biography.
China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989.
ISBN 9780547892634 (hbk.) : $26.00
0547892632 (hbk.)