ACHUKA Book of the Day Wed 4 Dec 2019
Yun Yun lives in a small West China town with her widowed father and an uncle, aunt and older cousin who live nearby. One day, her once-secure world begins to fall apart. Through her eyes, we observe her cousin, Zhang Qing, keen to dive into the excitements of adolescence, but clashing with repressive parents. Ensuing tensions reveal that the relationships between the two families are founded on a terrible lie.
First published in the UK in 2014 and now re-released, the story was in fact written quite a bit before that and included in People’s Literature (China) in 2008.
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