The Passage of Roses
Will be published approx. on 31. July 2026
Book
Hardback
978-1-83890-614-6 (ISBN)
Description
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?
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
ACA Publishing Limited
Product notice
Cloth over boards
With printed dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 145 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83890-614-6 (9781838906146)
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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.