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Memory and Oblivion
Zhousheng, Wang; Jiren, Wang
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Description for Memory and Oblivion
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 211 x 12. Weight in Grams: 226.
This award-winning novel, by one of China's most prolific contemporary writers focuses on a middle-class family in near contemporary Shanghai and deals with themes that transcend time and place: family relationships and growing old.
Retired nurse Ling Deqing is astonished one day to find her long divorced 80-year-old husband, Xiao Zichen, standing on the doorstep. Following the death of his second wife, he has found his way back to his first home in a fit of absent-mindedness, a sign of the onset of dementia. Reluctant at first, Ling Deqing eventually takes him back to ease the burden on her ... Read more
This award-winning novel, by one of China's most prolific contemporary writers focuses on a middle-class family in near contemporary Shanghai and deals with themes that transcend time and place: family relationships and growing old.
Retired nurse Ling Deqing is astonished one day to find her long divorced 80-year-old husband, Xiao Zichen, standing on the doorstep. Following the death of his second wife, he has found his way back to his first home in a fit of absent-mindedness, a sign of the onset of dementia. Reluctant at first, Ling Deqing eventually takes him back to ease the burden on her ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
BetterLink Press Incorporated United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781602202443
SKU
V9781602202443
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Ref
99-17
About Zhousheng, Wang; Jiren, Wang
Wang Zhousheng is a member of the China Writers Association, a member of the committee of the Shanghai Writers Association, and a research fellow of the Institute of Literature of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. She has published 16 works, including novels, collections of novellas, and short stories. The novel Memory and Oblivion was short-listed for the 2011 Mao ... Read more
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