The Drink and Dream Teahouse - Softcover

Hill, Justin

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9780316825849: The Drink and Dream Teahouse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316825840 ISBN 13: 9780316825849

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2002

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From a spellbinding storyteller comes a highly original, inventive novel that transports us to another world. In the small Chinese town of Shaoyang, times are changing rapidly, and the villagers are struggling to keep up with a China that has transformed radically not only since 1949 but since 1989 and the turbulent days of the protests of Tiananmen Square. The colorful array of characters in this touching, funny and memorable novel come from various generations and all corners of the village -- like Madame Fan, who sings opera from her balcony each morning and is trying to marry off her young daughter Peach, and Da Shan, who has returned home with newfound wealth from the big city to a town he no longer recognizes. Justin Hill has written a beautiful, utterly memorable, and tender story about the clash of the old world and the new.

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From the Author:

Of all my books - this one holds a special place. It was the first, you see, and falling into this novel and the lives and loves of the characters was like falling in love for the first time: wild, crazy and abandoned.

EVERYTHING went into it!

About the Author:

Justin Hill spent many years in China teaching English and is the author of one previous nonfiction work, A Bend in the Yellow River. He lives in New York City.

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