Our story : a memoir of love and life in China
Pingru, Rao2018
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Begun by the author when he was 87 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 20th century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. Rao Pingru was a 24-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 60 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 17 years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labour camp.
Main title:
Our story : a memoir of love and life in China / Rao Pingru ; translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman.
Author:
Pingru, Rao, author, illustratorHarman, Nicky, translator
Imprint:
London : Square Peg, 2018.
Collation:
363 pages : illustrations (colour), map (colour) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781910931752 (hbk. :)
Language:
EnglishChinese
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BRN:
1143690
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