目送

Long is an author, social and culture critic, and professor of humanities. In this book of essays she writes about separation: her father's death, her aging mother, her sons growing up and leaving home, her vulnerability and failures, and about her friends... It is a profound notebook on life and death, on sorrow and beauty. In Traditional Chinese.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 311 pages

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