I loved the homage to the female- mother, nurturer, life giver, sacrificial lamb. Yan is brilliant in his use of allegories in the tale of the Shangguan family (specifically Mother and Jintong) from a China (Motherland) violated by war, suffering famine, poverty and "imprisonment" behind the bamboo ...
Read it in Chinese. Somewhat like Yu Hua's To Live with magical realism.
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