Contemporary fiction books set in China (3)


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Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
Seeking her fortune in Beijing, Fenfang Wang leaves her rural farm to pursue her dreams in the city, lands a job as a film extra, falls for two unsuitable young men, and finally finds her true calling.

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Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Ye EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
A dramatic and moving YA novel by Ting-xing Ye, the internationally acclaimed author of A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, working with her husband, William Bell, author of the award-winning novels for young adults Forbidden City, Zack, and Stones. . Throwaway Daughter tells the dramatic and moving story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, a typical Canadian teenager until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on television. Horrified, she sets out to explore her Chinese ancestry, only to discover that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child... continue

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Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
The author of The Republic of Wine presents a new collection of innovative short stories, which range from the tragic to the comic and reflect the author's own disdain for bureaucracy and repression, that includes the title story, which is being made into a major film by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou.