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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND "GLOBETROTTING" PICK! A
woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original
literary tale from one of China's literary superstars. Hongmei is
the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, passive. Glen is the
perfect American husband: intelligent, caring, well-off. From the
outside, Hongmei and Glen's life in the San Francisco Bay Area
seems perfect. But at home, their marriage is falling apart.
Post-its left on the fridge are their primary form of
communication. When Hongmei receives a beguiling email from a
secret admirer, naturally she's intrigued. But what starts out as
harmless flirting with an internet stranger quickly turns into an
all-consuming emotional affair. As Hongmei spills more and more
about her dark past as a military intelligence officer-in-training
in China, she falls deeper and deeper into a tense cat-and-mouse
game. Desperate and self-destructive, she embarks on an
investigation into her emailer's secret history...one that may tear
her life and marriage apart forever. A psychological story at its
core, The Secret Talker elegantly examines how repressed desire and
simmering silence can upend even the most idyllic marriage. As
Hongmei pursues her stalker, her identity and agency come into
question, and the chase curveballs into a captivating journey of
self-actualization. Yan Geling pierces the human psyche to reveal
devastating and emotional truths - and an ending that will leave
readers speechless. Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang
Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by
prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one
another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in
China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of
prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a
young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers -
by Chris's wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's
murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at
his waist.
please read these beautiful skatches, it makes one cry since the
fame and the details come once Great mind agrees to join our
journey... world peace, which is hard, but we can make peace by
penning down our poetics and under Trump-pence detective eyes, we
feel good.
December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of
terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church.
Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we
witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann,
an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church
is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan.
But it becomes clear the Japanese are not obeying international
rules of engagement. As they pour through the streets of Nanking,
raping and pillaging the civilian population, the girls are in
increasing danger. And their safety is further compromised when
prostitutes from the nearby brothel climb over the wall into the
compound seeking refuge. Short, powerful, vivid, this beautiful
novel transports the reader to 1930s China. Full of wonderful
characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes,
it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can
flourish amidst death.
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