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Zhang Jie · 2002 CE · Novel · Chinese · Contemporary

Wu Wei, a woman writer, looks back over the loves and marriages of her own life and those of the women of her family across the turbulent twentieth century in China. The book asks what women have been allowed to want from love, marriage and freedom at each stage, and what it cost them. Zhang Jie spent years on this three-volume work, which won her second Mao Dun Prize in 2005.

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