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Book

Our story : a memoir of love and life in China

Call Number

  • 920 P653 (CEN)

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Edition

First American edition.

Languages

Translated from the Chinese.

Publication Information

New York : Pantheon Books, 2018.

Physical Description

363 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

Our Story follows Rao and Meitang Pingru through the decades, in both poverty and good fortune--looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change.

Contents

  • Our childhood years
  • I go to war
  • A dab of red lipstick
  • Journeying side by side
  • Crossroads
  • You ask me when I will return
  • Now you are gone
  • The passing of the seasons.

Subjects

Added Authors

Nicky Harman