For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young.
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Contemplative, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books, San Val, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- cmn, English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781407021348
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“Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.”
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