The Promise
Love and Loss in Modern China
At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to have nine children and chose colours portrayed in some of their favourite poems as nicknames for them - Red, Cyan, Orange, Yellow, Green, Green Tangerine, Purple, Blue and Rainbow. Fate, and the sweep of twentieth-century history, would later divide them.Xinran begins with the magic and tragedy of one young couple's wedding night in 1949, and goes on to tell personal experiences of loss, grief and hardship through China's extraordinary century.A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of mode…
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Weitere Autoren: Spence, William (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4482-1789-2
- EAN: 9781448217892
- Produktnummer: 33371045
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.0 cm 10 g
- Gewicht: 10
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