LILI Author:Annie Wang Lili is s remarkable first novel that chronicles the emotional and psycological awakening of a disaffected Chinese girl during the turbulent years of the late 20th century. — Lili grows up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, watching while her parents are branded as disreputable intellectuals. When they are sent out of Bejing for "re-educati... more »on", Lili accompanies them into exile.
But when the decades of smouldering anger and resentment suddenly ignite in 1989 in Tianamen Square, Lili comes powerfully awake. She meets an American journalist and learns to see China through his eyes. Gradually she relinquishes her indifference and begins to comprehend the magnitude of the changes that are sweeping across her country as she prepares to stand, with her peers, in defiance before her oppressors.
Written with a bracing rawness and immediacy, Lili bears sharp-eyed witness to historical events by telling a story whose psychological and emotional veracity is both irrefutable and utterly compelling.« less