Ratings
Rated: 7 times. Average rating 4.14
Description
A tale set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution follows the struggles of Kai Ying to safeguard her family when her teacher husband is arrested and sent to a "reeducation" labor camp for criticizing the Communist Party, a situation that is further complicated a year later by her young son's injury and guilty household secrets. By the award-winning author of The Street of a Thousand Blossoms. 100,000 first printing.
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