| Author: |
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Lulu Wang
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| Title: |
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The Lily Theatre |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
| Binding: |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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357 |
| Date: |
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2000-1 |
| ISBN: |
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0340770007 |
| Publisher: |
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Hodder and Stoughton |
| Previous givers: |
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1 brynayeo (Singapore) |
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1 dey (USA: MA) |
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| Description: |
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In Mao's China,Lian's family has lost their prominence and is considered beneath contempt. Just as Lian forms a friendship with Kim, a reviled outcast of the third caste- though inronically now decreed the highest class- Lian's father is transferred to a remote province, and her mother, a historian, is forced into a re-education camp. When Lian becomes ill, her headstrong mother secures permission for gruelling conditions, she has the educational opportunity of a lifetime: several of the nation's leading, imprisioned scholars teach her what she would never have learned at school. In a corner of the camp she finds a place to recite her politically condemned lessons and thus discovers her own voice, a place she calls 'the Lily Theatre'.
Returning from the camp to Kim, Lian struggles to reconnect with her friend.But their fierce closeness cannot alter the rigid caste system still reigning in Communist China, and their lives turn as chaotic as their turbulent country.
With unflinching honesty, Lulu Wang captures the coarse reality of Maoist China, startlingly offset by the deeply moving story of two girls who fight the odds to preserve their friendship. |
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