北去来辞

Liu Haihong, a sensitive, intense young woman from the south, escapes a troubled past by marrying Shi Daoliang, a single writer in his fifties she meets when he visits from Beijing, and follows him north. Her hopes of passionate love and a career fall apart in the cold reality of the capital and a marriage that exists only on paper, and she keeps searching: for love, for herself, and for the truth about the madness of her father and brother back home. Alongside her are her daughter Chunyang and the country woman Yinhe and her daughter Yuxi, who come to Beijing to work. Through them and their relatives and lovers, the novel follows people uprooted by an age of migration across more than fifty years.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2013 by Beijing Publishing House

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9787200096132 (original)