Tiananmen Square av Lai Wen

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<p><strong>''An extraordinary book. Truly important'' - William Boyd</strong></p><p><strong>A stunning, deeply moving novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in Tiananmen Square protests</strong></p><p>It is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a formidable figure ¿ no-nonsense and uncompromising, but loving towards her granddaughter ¿ while her ageing beauty of a mother snipes at her father, a sunken figure who has taken refuge in his work.</p><p>As she grows up, Lai comes to discern the realities of the country she lives is: an early encounter with the police haunts her for years; her father makes her see that his quietness is a reaction to experiences he has lived through; and an old bookseller subtly introduces her to ideas and novels that open her mind to different perspectives. But she also goes through what anyone goes through when young ¿ t