English by Wang Gang, translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan [in Bloomsbury Review]
25 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation
At 12, Love Liu lives with his architect parents in the village of Ürümchi in the Xinjiang region of northeast China. Growing up during the Cultural Revolution means he is surrounded by discontent and fear – his parents, his friends, their parents must always be diligently...