Description
Returning to his remote Henan village in 1968, a young People’s Liberation Army soldier arrives with revolutionary zeal—and quickly finds that ideology can be as intimate as it is violent. With Xia Hongmei, he pursues a forbidden love that the village’s traditions and the Cultural Revolution’s demands cannot contain, turning private desire into public “struggle” and ambition into dangerous performance. As their underground plans unfold with operatic momentum and darkly comic edge, the novel exposes how power reshapes truth, loyalty, and the body itself. Blending biting social critique with startling humor and lyric intensity, this is a sharply plotted human drama about corruption, complicity, and the brute force of love and longing.
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paperback
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published Jan 1, 2022
432 pages
ISBN: 9780802158130
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First Published
2021
Language
chi
Translation
From: chi
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