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Lin Bai

林白

Born 1958 · China

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Books on prize lists

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    Mao Dun 2015 · Nominee

    北去来辞

    Bei qu lai ci

    Title translated by AI:“Going North and Coming Back”

    Lin Bai · 55 when first published

    Novel · Migration, Family

    AI-generated summary:Two pairs of mothers and daughters, one educated, one from the countryside, leave the south for Beijing and struggle to find a place there, while the families they left behind live through half a century of change.