Hunan

In Hunan province in the 1930s, missionaries try to spread Christianity and literacy among people caught between tradition and unrest. The Swiss Johann Caspar Wolff records the missionaries’ lives. When war breaks out between China and Japan, he must write about things he never wanted to, and Liu Chin-chin, the teenage girl he saved from the Nanking massacre, is not the only one whose life the war changes for good.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

549 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

China, 1930s

First published

2018 by Like

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789520117528 (original)