In English
Mao Dun 2011 · Winner
Someone to Talk To
一句顶一万句 · Yi ju ding yiwan ju
Liu Zhenyun · 51 when first published
Novel · 392 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Yang Baishun, a tofu seller's son in Yanjin, Henan, drifts from trade to trade and name to name looking for someone he can really talk to. Seventy years later the son of his lost foster daughter sets out on the same search.