1989, ISBN: 9780330488945

Lili grows up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, watching while her parents are branded as disreputable intellectuals. When they are sent out of Beijing for 're-education', Lili acco… More...

Lili grows up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, watching while her parents are branded as disreputable intellectuals. When they are sent out of Beijing for 're-education', Lili accompanies them and endures her own humiliations. Whatever idealism she may have had is thwarted by the oppression of daily life - she is paralyzed by cynicism, indifference, and self-loathing. But when the decades of smouldering anger and resentment borne by ordinary people suddenly ignite in 1989 in Tiananmen Square, Lili comes powerfully awake to a political and personal understanding she might never have been able to achieve otherwise. Herself noted as a 'young hooligan' and recently set free from prison, Lili embarks on an affair with an American who has a very different view of China to her, and prepares to stand, with her peers, in defiance before her oppressors. Written with a bracing rawness and immediacy, LILI bears sharp-eyed witness to historical events by telling a story whose psychological and emotional veracity is both irrefutable and utterly compelling. 'An amazing accomplishment...beautiful, painterly images emerge through the rawness and edginess of Lili's self-loathing.There is clearly a fiendishly strong intelligence at work behind this sophisticated debut.' The Times; Fiction, Picador<

ISBN: 9780330488945

Softcover book. 288 pages. Published by Picador USA Media > Book, [PU: Pan Books, Pan Macmillan, Time Warner]

2002, ISBN: 0330488945

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2002, ISBN: 0330488945

[EAN: 9780330488945], [PU: Picador], Books