Lili
| ISBN | 9780330488945 |
| Price | 27.95 |
| Stock | NO STOCK |
| Title | Lili |
| Author | Wang, Annie |
| Publisher | Picador |
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Description
Lili grows up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, watching while her parents are branded as disreputable intellectuals. When they are sent out of Beijing for 're-education', Lili accompanies them and endures her own humiliations. Whatever idealism she may have had is thwarted by the oppression of daily life - she is paralyzed by cynicism, indifference and self-loathing. But when the decades of smouldering anger and resentment borne by ordinary people suddenly ignite in 1989 in Tiananmen Square, Lili becomes powerfully awake to a political and personal understanding she might never have been able to achieve otherwise. Herself noted as a 'young hooligan' and recently set free from prison, Lili embarks on an affair with an American who has a very different view of China to her, and prepares to stand, with her peers, in defiance before her oppressors.
