Our Story (Hardcover)

Rao Pingru

ISBN 10: 1101871490 / ISBN 13: 9781101871492

Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 2018

About this Item

Hardcover. Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. Rao Pingru was twenty-four-year-old soldier when he was reintroduced to Mao Meitang, a girl hed known in childhood and now the woman his father had arranged for him to marry. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingrus heart: a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. Our Story is Pingru and Meitangs epic but unassuming romance. It follows the couple through the decades, in both poverty and good fortunelooking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change. When Meitang passes away in 2008, Pingru memorializes his wife and their relationship the only way he knows how: through painting. In an outpouring of love and grief, he puts it all on paper. Spanning 1922 through 2008, Our Story is a tales of enduring love and simple values that is at once tragic and inspiring: an old-fashioned story that unfolds in a nation undergoing cataclysmic change.(With gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout, and a distinctive exposed spine emulating the original Chinese design.) Translation of: Paingrau maeeitaang: Waeo liaea de gaushai. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Story (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101871490
• ISBN 13: 9781101871492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. 

Rao Pingru was twenty-four-year-old soldier when he was reintroduced to Mao Meitang, a girl he’d known in childhood and now the woman his father had arranged for him to marry. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingru’s heart: a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. 

Our Story is Pingru and Meitang’s epic but unassuming romance. It follows the couple through the decades, in both poverty and good fortune—looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change. When Meitang passes away in 2008, Pingru memorializes his wife and their relationship the only way he knows how: through painting. In an outpouring of love and grief, he puts it all on paper. Spanning 1922 through 2008, Our Story is a tales of enduring love and simple values that is at once tragic and inspiring: an old-fashioned story that unfolds in a nation undergoing cataclysmic change.

(With gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout, and a distinctive exposed spine emulating the original Chinese design.)

About the Author

RAO PINGRU was born in 1922. He lives in Shanghai, China.

Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman.