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1st published in China: 2009Dear Comrade. Your request is very important to us. At a future date we will give it careful attention & scrutiny. Revolutionary greetings to you. Disgraced Secretary Ku writes letters every day asking for a reprieve. He was banished from the Party when it was discovered he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of the revolutionary martyr Deng Siopang, but the issue of a river pirate & a prostitute. Mocked by the citizens of Milltown, Secretary Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people on a fleet of industrial barges during the boom time under Chairman Mao. Refusing to renounce his status as a Party official, he maintains a distance—with Dongliang, his teenage son—from the gossipy lowlifes who populate the barges of the Golden Sparrow River. One day a feral little girl, Huixan,arrives looking for her mother, who has jumped to her death in the river. The boat people, & especially Dongliang, take her to their hearts. But Huixan sows conflict wherever she goes, & soon Dongliang is in the grip of an obsession for her. He takes on Life, Fate & the Party in the only way he knows... Raw,

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Author

Su Tong, Howard Goldblatt (translation)

Publisher

The Overlook Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590206720

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, World Fiction