| The Lily Theatre Contributor(s): Wang, Lulu (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385489862 ISBN-13: 9780385489867 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: The Lily Theater is a strikingly original debut novel-an international literary sensation-based on the author's experience growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. When twelve-year-old Lian Shui accompanies her mother to reeducation camp, no one imagines that Lian will receive an education. But detained along with her mother are some of China's greatest thinkers and they take an interest in young Lian. She in turn delivers lectures of her own to the creatures inhabiting a pond she dubs "The Lily Theater." These ideas inform her life when she returns to school and reunites with her best friend Kim, a peasant girl through whom Lian ultimately learns about the painful failings of Mao's teachings-and of life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00023147 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.80 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - East Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Lily Theater is a strikingly original debut novel-an international literary sensation-based on the author's experience growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. When twelve-year-old Lian Shui accompanies her mother to reeducation camp, no one imagines that Lian will receive an education. But detained along with her mother are some of China's greatest thinkers and they take an interest in young Lian. She in turn delivers lectures of her own to the creatures inhabiting a pond she dubs "The Lily Theater." These ideas inform her life when she returns to school and reunites with her best friend Kim, a peasant girl through whom Lian ultimately learns about the painful failings of Mao's teachings-and of life. |