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Someone to Talk To: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Zhenyun Liu; Howard Goldblatt; Sylvia Li-chun Lin


Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
386
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Originally published in China in 2009 and appearing in English for the first time, Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning Someone to Talk To follows two men living seventy years apart who in their loneliness and struggle to find meaningful personal connections highlight the contours of everyday life in pre- and post-Mao China.

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