The Lily Theater: A Novel-Quality Guarantee

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A strikingly original debut novel—and an international literary sensation—basedon the author’s experience growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. • “An original writer of real talent.” —The New York Times Book Review

When twelve-year-old Lian Shui accompanies her mother to reeducation camp, no oneimagines that Lian will receive an education. But detained along with her motherare some of China’s greatest thinkers and they take an interest in young Lian. Shein turn delivers lectures of her own to the creatures inhabiting a pond she dubs”The Lily Theater.” These ideas inform her life when she returns to school and reuniteswith her best friend Kim, a peasant girl through whom Lian ultimately learns aboutthe painful failings of Mao’s teachings-and of life.