While the fervour of the Red Guards consumes 1970s Beijing, Mei comes of age in a once-grand courtyard dominated by her grandmother, a survivor of violence who inflicts the same kind of control upon her family that she once resisted. But the matriarch is unable to repel the political storm that comes to their home and leaves death and a traumatised young girl in its wake.
Years later, Mei becomes an artist, slowly committing memory to canvas. When the faultlines of the revolution are recorded as scars, can she learn to reframe the female form as a subject for liberation?
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Gewebe-Einband
mit Schutzumschlag (bedruckt)
Maße
Höhe: 224 mm
Breite: 145 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83890-614-6 (9781838906146)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Tie Ning (1957-) is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and essays and a recipient of major national literary awards. She served as the first female chair of the China Writers Association until 2024, where her leadership has seen modernisation and a much-needed diversification of its membership. Her novel The Bathing Women was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Hongling Zhang is a writer and translator of literary fiction. Her published translations include Wang in Love and Bondage by Wang Xiaobo and The Bathing Women by Tie Ning, which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her original essays and short stories have appeared in Dublin Review of Books, SupChina, Initium Media and other literary journals. She lives in St Louis. Jason Sommer is the co-translator of The Bathing Women by Tie Ning and Wang in Love and Bondage by Wang Xiaobo, and a translator of Irish language verse. Sommer's poetry has been published in five collections, most recently Portulans in the University of Chicago's Phoenix Poets Series. His latest publication is the memoir Shmuel's Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz With My Survivor Father.
