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Under the Hawthorn Tree

by Ai Mi
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A bestseller in China with more than 1 million copies sold. Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be re-educated under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a capitalist, is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger siblings. When Jing arrives with a group at Xiping village in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges region, she meets geology student Jianxin, nicknamed Old Three, who is the son of a high-ranking military officer, but whose mother committed suicide after being branded a rightist. Despite their disparate social backgrounds and a political atmosphere that forbids the relationship, Jingqiu and Jianxin fall desperately in love. But their budding romance is cut short by fate . . .

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781770893504
  • ISBN-10: 1770893504
  • Publisher: House of Anansi Press
  • Publish Date: October 2013
  • Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 368

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