Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square

Softcover
4.51

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Book Information

Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
Contemporary
Format
Softcover
Pages
521
Price
12.50 €

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A coming-of-age story during 1970-1980 Beijing.

Coming-of-age story, historical novel and auto fiction (or biography). Lao Wen is a pseudonym. We follow her life from age of 8-9 till 19-20. She has difficult relationship with her mother, her father is distant due to trauma of “cultural revolution”. She loves her grandma and younger brother. She falls in love with reading because or friendship with bookshop’s owner. She has a boyfriend, wins money with her essay about memory and buys first television for the family. And eventually she participates in students’ protests of ‘89. As far as I remember it is also first book from Chinese(Canadian) author.

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