The musician, poet and journalist Liao Yiwu has lived far from his native China since 2011, when he managed to flee from that "colossal and invisible prison that is China" through Yunnan province. Yiwu spent four years imprisoned after the publication of his poem "Massacre", a song of complaint about the massacre of students in Tiananmen Square. The memories of his time in prison, For a song, a hundred songs (Sixth Floor, 2015), show the horror that Yiwu had to suffer and explain the reasons why, after being harassed by the intelligence of his country after having received An invitation from Salman Rushdie to attend the PEN New York Film Festival, finally decided to leave China. Since exile in Germany, Yiwu has continued to develop his work with the aim of portraying the reality of the hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and marginality who are hiding behind the Chinese economic boom of the last decade. In God is red, following the wake of The Corpse Walker (Sixth Floor, 2012), Yiwu focuses on the southwest region of China, where small communities of people have endured, risking their own lives, the state's mandate to eliminate Any form of religious worship. In spite of his strong secular and atheistic formation, Yiwu found in the persecution of these religious communities the opportunity to deepen in his denunciation of the brutal apparatus of Chinese state repression. The lyricism of her prose and the capacity for empathy with the characters she portrays give an almost mythical character to stories such as that of a nonagenarian nun who, despite the beatings, famine and decades of forced labor to which she was condemned , Maintains his struggle to restore the right of his community to practice his faith, or that of a surgeon who left a lucrative position as an administrator in a Party hospital to provide free care for people in remote mountains in southwestern China. God is red confirms the author's vocation to explore the innermost areas of Chinese society and shows the courage and courage of women and men struggling to preserve the most elemental aspects of human dignity and freedom.