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'A brilliant and sensitive writer ... I was very moved' - Jung Chang
'A raw and powerful memoir' - New York Times
'Ying's style is austere and dry; it's severity makes the story all the more heartbreaking' - The Times
'A beautiful, haunting book, an epic of the face of China we do not see ... completely absorbing' - Mary Wesley
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A vivid memoir of a young girl growing up in Mao's China
Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s, Hong Ying grew up in a slum on the hilly Yangtze bank, constantly aware of the sacrifices her family made so that she would survive. Nearing her eighteenth birthday, she became determined to unravel some of the enigmas that had troubled her all her life: a stalker who had shadowed her since childhood, an anomalous record in her father's government file, and an unshakable feeling that she was an outsider in her own family.
With fearless honesty, Daughter of the River follows China's trajectory through one woman's life, from the Great Famine through to the Cultural Revolution, and beyond to the horrifying events in Tian'anmen Square.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'A brilliant and sensitive writer ... I was very moved' * Jung Chang * 'A raw and powerful memoir ... You feel that you have entered into the deepest truths of a tormented psyche, and into the truths as well of a bruised generation otherwise impossible for us to know' * New York Times * 'Dealing as it does with the nightmare of Mao's China, comparisons with Jung Chang's Wild Swans will be inevitable, but Ying's book more closely resembles Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club ... Ying's style is austere and dry; it's severity makes the story all the more heartbreaking' * The Times * 'A beautiful, haunting book, an epic of the face of China we do not see ... completely absorbing' * Mary Wesley *
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4088-0313-4 (9781408803134)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Hong Ying was born in Chongqing, China in 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward during the Cultural Revolution. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer in poems and short stories.
After periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai's Fudan University, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she established herself as an international writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000.
Hong Ying is best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River. She has been published in twenty-nine languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries. Many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films, for example, Lord of Shanghai. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility - and compassion - in contemporary China.
