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"An exquisitely beautiful book about that uncertain border between girlhood and womanhood, between passion and desire, a country only too familiar to all women. Fan Wu’s story swept me away."
—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
"A first novel whose psychic terrain is the hinterland between girlhood and womanhood, lust and love, tradition and progress . . . subtle and deftly paced… [it is] ultimately a story about sheer awakening."
—The Observer (UK)
"An original and unforgettable story. Just like the flowers referred to in the title, Fan Wu’s novel is brimming with passion, vitality, and hope. The girls in this book are the daughters and granddaughters of The Good Women of China, and are products of the society both modern, expansive, and communistically introvert."
—Xinran, author of The Good Women of China
"February Flowers enters the past as it was lived, in real-time and without the props of hindsight. . . . Compelling."
—Financial Times (UK)
From the Hardcover edition.
—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
"A first novel whose psychic terrain is the hinterland between girlhood and womanhood, lust and love, tradition and progress . . . subtle and deftly paced… [it is] ultimately a story about sheer awakening."
—The Observer (UK)
"An original and unforgettable story. Just like the flowers referred to in the title, Fan Wu’s novel is brimming with passion, vitality, and hope. The girls in this book are the daughters and granddaughters of The Good Women of China, and are products of the society both modern, expansive, and communistically introvert."
—Xinran, author of The Good Women of China
"February Flowers enters the past as it was lived, in real-time and without the props of hindsight. . . . Compelling."
—Financial Times (UK)
From the Hardcover edition.
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Set in modern China, February Flowers tells the stories of two young women’s journeys to self-discovery and reconciliation with the past.
Seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan have very little in common other than studying in the same college. Ming, idealistic and preoccupied, lives in a world of books, music, and imagination. Yan, by contrast, is sexy, cynical, and wild, with no sense of home. Yet when the two meet, they soon become best friends. Their friendship is brief, almost accidental, but intense, and
it changes Ming’s world forever.
Insightful, sophisticated, and rich with complex characters, February Flowers captures a society torn between tradition and modernity, dogma and freedom. It is a meditation on friendship, family, love, loss and redemption, and how a background shapes a life.
From the Hardcover edition.
Seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan have very little in common other than studying in the same college. Ming, idealistic and preoccupied, lives in a world of books, music, and imagination. Yan, by contrast, is sexy, cynical, and wild, with no sense of home. Yet when the two meet, they soon become best friends. Their friendship is brief, almost accidental, but intense, and
it changes Ming’s world forever.
Insightful, sophisticated, and rich with complex characters, February Flowers captures a society torn between tradition and modernity, dogma and freedom. It is a meditation on friendship, family, love, loss and redemption, and how a background shapes a life.
From the Hardcover edition.
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