Here is a comprehensive selection (six short stories and a novella) by China's foremost woman writer. Her works cover a wide range of subjects, her style is fresh and lightly romantic. Whether writing satirically or in a romantic vein, she does not hesitate to tackle current social problems, male supremacy and nepotism.
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Language Notes:
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese
Review:
The horrors of the Chinese cultural revolution linger in the memories and lives of Zhang Jie's characters in this engrossing collection of six short stories and a novella. In the title piece, a daughter, by not following her mother's deathbed wishes, learns of the great love of her mother's life. An elderly man in "An Unfinished Record" wonders: "Do we really have to wait until it's too late to do anything, before we remember all those countless old debts great and small that we've no way of settling now?" A young student learns an important life lesson about his own frailty from a woman who sells tickets for the bus in "Who Knows How To Live?" The novella, "The Ark," describes three single women who "...were quite used to hardship, so much so that they often failed to notice if there was an easier way," and the obstacles they must confront in order to survive, including giving up their children and tolerating sexual harassment. Though these are stories of often painful lives, they also remind us of the powers of love, commitment, and endurance. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Holly Smith
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- PublisherCHINESE LITERATURE PRESS
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 7507100324
- ISBN 13 9787507100327
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages227
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