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  • The Secret Talker

    A Novel

    by Geling Yan ...
    Translated by Jeremy Tiang ...
    "The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment." -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND "GLOBETROTTING" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars.Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Flowers of War

    by Geling Yan ...
    Translated by Nicky Harman ...
    December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow.Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. But it ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Little Aunt Crane

    by Geling Yan ...
    Translated by Esther Tyldesley ...
    In the last days of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. Only 16-year-old Tatsuru escapes.But Tatsuru's trials have just begun. As she flees, she falls into the hands of human traffickers. She is sold to a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Criminal Lu Yanshi

    by Geling Yan ...
    Translated by Lawrence A. Walker ...
    Criminal Lu Yanshi relates the life and times of a Chinese intellectual in the 20th Century. Lu Yanshi, a prodigy from a wealthy Shanghai family, earns a Ph.D. in the United States and sows his wild oats there but cannot escape his stifling social milieu, his overbearing stepmother and his forced marriage to her niece. As war and revolution engulf China, Lu Yanshi speaks out for intellectual ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 芳华 Fang Hua

    by 严歌苓, Geling Yan ...
    《芳华》围绕着英雄楷模人物刘峰对其暗恋的女歌手发生的"触摸事件"展开，讲述了在某部队文工团中发生的故事。远在七十年代的文革尾声中，西南城市一座老旧红楼中，一群正值青春的少年少女军人，经历的爱与背叛，情欲与禁锢的，战争与生存的情感史，甚至可谓现代军中亦不无"红楼幽梦"，或是无论和平与战争，皆为"怎一个情字了的"！质朴善良的"好人"刘峰，与被集体歧视的何小曼，以及天之骄女林丁丁，故事叙事萧穗子等人的情感缠绕、交集，跨越四十余年大相庭径又出人意料的人生归宿。2017年4月，小说经审查与删改之后首版与北京，同年12月15日，由作者本人编剧、冯小刚执导、黄轩主演的电影"芳华"在中国和世界各地上演。海外再版《芳华》的目的之一，是将未经审查的原稿文本呈现给读者。The novel Fang Hua (You Touched Me) centers on a "touching" incident ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    The Secret Talker

    A Novel

    by Geling Yan ...
    Narrated by Angela Lin ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 54 min

    ""The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment."" -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND ""GLOBETROTTING"" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars.Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Flowers of War

    by Geling Yan ...
    Narrated by Samantha Quan ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow.Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. But it ... Read more

    $16.60 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Flowers of War

    by Geling Yan ...
    Narrated by Samantha Quan ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    The powerful Chinese novel about love and war on which Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has based his latest film starring Christian Bale to be released in 2012.This moving short novel is based on true events that took place during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese invaded the Chinese city, slaughtering not only soldiers but raping and murdering the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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