by Lulu Wang · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422675914
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«El teatro de los lirios» is the novel by Lulu Wang, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (605 pages, in Spanish).
The work tells the story of Lian, a teenager who grows up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and arrives at a labor camp where her mother is interned along with other intellectuals. There and in Beijing, Lian discovers friendship with Kim, a girl of lower caste, and witnesses a world marked by accusations and betrayals. Guided by confined teachers such as the historian Qin, she learns another history of China, which she tells to the frogs and cicadas of a lake, the setting of her particular theater of the lilies.
The book was awarded the Gouden Ezelsoor prize in 1998.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in 20th-century China.
Lulu Wang is a Chinese-born writer who has lived in the Netherlands since 1986. She is a best-selling novelist and also a columnist for Shijie Bolan.
