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Highlights
- A bestseller in China with more than 1 million copies sold.
- About the Author: Ai Mi: Ai Mi is a pseudonym.
- 368 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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About the Book
Originally published in English under the title: Hawthorn tree forever.Book Synopsis
A bestseller in China with more than 1 million copies sold. Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be re-educated under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a capitalist, is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger siblings. When Jing arrives with a group at Xiping village in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges region, she meets geology student Jianxin, nicknamed Old Three, who is the son of a high-ranking military officer, but whose mother committed suicide after being branded a rightist. Despite their disparate social backgrounds and a political atmosphere that forbids the relationship, Jingqiu and Jianxin fall desperately in love. But their budding romance is cut short by fate . . .Review Quotes
"The stuff of Romeo and Juliet . . . This book should be read." -- Globe and Mail "Moving." -- Financial Times "The novel is rewarding for its spare prose and subtle treatment of conflicts, quarrels, racial ambiguities and acts of transcendent heroism woven into the story . . . There are doomed love stories, amid the tragedies, but they are dawn from a deeper well and speak to the persistence of humanity in the grimmest of circumstances." -- The Guardian
About the Author
Ai Mi: Ai Mi is a pseudonym. She lives in the United States, and grew up in China.Dimensions (Overall): 7.8 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 368
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Ai Mi
Language: English
Street Date: October 15, 2013
TCIN: 85150643
UPC: 9781770893504
Item Number (DPCI): 247-59-1397
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.7 pounds
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