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HANGING MAN: THE ARREST OF AI WEIWEI
MARTIN, BARNABY
In October 2010, Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. In April
2011, he was arrested and held for more than two months in terrible conditions. The most famous living
Chinese artist and activist, Weiwei is a figure of extraordinary talent, courage, and integrity. From the
beginning of his career, he has spoken out against the world’s most powerful totalitarian regime, in part by
creating some of the most beautiful and mysterious artworks of our age, works which have touched
millions around the world. Just after Ai Weiwei’s release from illegal detention, Barnaby Martin flew to
Beijing to interview him about his imprisonment and to learn more about what is really going on behind
the scenes in the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party. Based on these interviews and
Martin’s own intimate connections with China, Hanging Man is an exploration of Weiwei’s life, art, and
activism and also a meditation on the creative process, and on the history of art in modern China. It is a
rich picture of the man and his milieu, of what he is trying to communicate with his art, and of the growing
campaign for democracy and accountability in China. It is a book about courage and hope found in the
absence of freedom and justice.
ART 1ST PRINTING 30,000
FABER & FABER
256 PAGES
9780374167752
$32.00 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013
HANNS AND RUDOLF
HARDING, THOMAS
May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is
assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever
seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew now serving in the
British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only
oversaw the murder of more than two million men, women, and children, but he perfected Hitler’s
programme of mass extermination. On the run across a continent in ruins, Höss is the one man whose
testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full,
exhilarating account of Höss’s capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving
from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror
of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German men
— one Jewish, one Catholic — whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way.
HISTORY
HOUSE OF ANANSI
9781770893153
$24.95 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2013
416 PAGES