Review of Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2021) by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky for The A.V. Club — 27 May 2021
Across the extended, handsomely shot sit-down interviews (with Ma’s daughter and the three other writers), what emerges is a fragmentary oral history of Chinese rural life across several transformative decades of the 20th century: family stories, tragedies, remembered slogans, the particulars of trying to grow crops in alkaline soil or coming of age as the son of a declared “counterrevolutionary.
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This review of Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2021) was written by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and published by The A.V. Club on 27 May 2021.
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue has generally received positive reviews.
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