From the author of The Good Women of China, the epic story of a Chinese woman's 30-year-long search through Tibet for her missing husband.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Xinran
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus, Vintage, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780099484929
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“Quand j’avais cinq ans, j’ai surpris dans une rue de Pékin un bout de conversation qui s’est fiché dans ma mémoire et ne m’a pas quittée depuis.”
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