Winner of the third annual Tartt Fiction Award. It was some decade.
The universities were closed. Students were at war. Poetry was
banned. And the word "love", unless applied to Mao, was expressly
forbidden. Artists were denounced, and many opted for suicide. This
is the time -- its madness, its passion, its complexity -- that
Xujun Eberlein brings vividly to life in Apologies Forthcoming, her
moving collection of short stories about the millions who lived
during China's Cultural Revolution. An award-winning writer who now
lives in Massachusetts, Eberlein has nothing to apologise for. Her
stories are electrifying. About half of the stories take place
during the years of the Cultural Revolution; the other half in its
aftermath. How many come from personal experience is hard to say.
Eberlein, who lived through the Cultural Revolution's decade as a
child and teenager, had a sister who died as a Red Guard, and that
event seems fictionalised in one of the stories. Apologies
Forthcoming shines a revealing light on some of the people whose
lives were changed forever by the ten years that turned China
upside down. Eberlein does the great service of illuminating the
interior lives of a peculiar generation, many of whom are now
leading China's phenomenal awakening.
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