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Synopsis
A Chinese journalist who escaped Communist China after the Tiananmen Square massacre describes his family's new life in the United States, an experience that was transformed by an automobile accident that left his wife terribly injured and in a coma.
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"Su...has given us new insight into the human condition by virtue of the melancholy voyage he was forced to take." --The New York Times
"Achingly beautiful. . . . A record of intense soul-searching, of a reevaluation of the self's role in the family, and of the impossibility of understanding and mastering one's (mis)fortune. Su Xiaokang writes with candor, feeling, and intelligence." --Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting "Filled to the brim with bitter rapture and auspicious musings about the varieties of love, stages of life and tactics for braving misfortune. These pages simmer with eloquent vitality." --The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) "Su Xiaokang reminds us all of the agonizing consequences exile can have: loss of purpose, loss of language, loss of country, loss of familiar audience. But faced with the greatest potential loss of all, his wife's death, Su comes back from the edge to create an astonishing work of love and compassion, one that reaffirms the triumph of life." --Jonathan Spence, Yale UniversityTranslated from the Chinese by Zhu Hong
About the Author
Su Xiaokang was born in 1949 in China's Zhejiang province. An investigative reporter who made a name for himself during the 1980s for tackling many sensitive subjects, he is best known as co-author of a six-part television series, River Elegy (1988), which caused widespread debate about political reform and China's future. It was this brief period of intellectual effervescence that ultimately led to the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989. Named number five on the government's wanted list, Su Xiaokang was smuggled to Hong Kong and then Paris before settling in 1990 in Princeton, New Jersey.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORZhu Hong, formerly of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is currently Visiting Professor at Boston University.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0375410392
- ISBN 13 9780375410390
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages329
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