Bøger af Jia Pingwa

Following Hai Ruo, the owner of the teashop, and her sisterhood of a dozen friends. Plagued by unhappy relationships with men and their struggles with business and politics.

 Evening, I made my one hundred and seventy-eighth scratch on the cave wall.Despite her humble rural beginnings, Butterfly regards herself as a sophisticated young woman. So, when offered a lucrative job in the city, she jumps at the chance.But instead of being given work, she is trafficked and sold to Bright Black, a desperate man from a poor mountain village.Trapped in Bright’s cave home, Butterfly struggles to repel his lustful advances, and she plans her escape… not so easily done in this isolated and remote village where she is watched day and night.Will her tenacity and free spirit survive, or will she be broken?

While eroticism, exoticism, and esoteric minutiae pervade Ruined City, this tale of a famous contemporary writer's sexual and legal imbroglios is an incisive portrait of politics and culture in a rapidly changing China.

In this dazzling, earthy novel, Pingwa presents an unforgettable chronicle of rural China, a world at once utterly alien and uncannily familiar. Called "impressive and revealing" ("Kirkus Reviews), Turbulence" follows the love lives of two peasants through the post-Mao years.