by Liu Hong · Headline Review · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747265092
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«Startling Moon» is the literary fiction novel by Liu Hong, published by Headline Review in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Taotao is sent at age six to live with her grandparents; as she grows up, she understands her mother's secret: her grandfather's fall from grace during the Cultural Revolution and the sacrifice her mother made for her. The novel contrasts repressed tradition with a changing China and follows Taotao in her search for identity and a passion that risks everything.
The book was published in March 2002; the cover features Chinese characters with verses by the poet Wang Wei, along with an image of a pagoda.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction with an interest in twentieth-century China and in coming-of-age and family novels.
