Hija del río

Synopsis of Hija del río

"River Daughter" is an absorbing and exciting portrait of life on the lowest rung of Chinese society. Hong Ying was born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s, which claimed the lives of tens of millions of people, including some relatives. She grew up in a suburb on the banks of the Yangtze River, in a neighborhood veiled in fog and superstition, and was always aware of the sacrifices her family made so that she could survive. Hong Ying's search for the truth led her to the discovery of family secrets that tragically and irrevocably changed her life. But those same events also made her free to leave her home for life and become a writer. With raw intensity and fearless frankness, River Daughter follows China's trajectory through the life of a woman, from the Great Famine, through the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square.