When the fervour of revolution is gone, what remains?
Four leftist teenagers in 1950s Malaya dedicate themselves to overthrowing colonialism and bringing about a better world. With time, their paths diverge — into capitalism, into adultery, into the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution. Disillusioned and middle-aged, they look back at their lives from the prosperous but soulless 1980s, wondering what has become of their dreams and ideals.
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize
Sobre o autor
Jeremy Tiang has translated more than ten books from Chinese, including novels by Chan Ho-Kei, Su Wei-chen, and Zhang Yueran, and has been awarded a PEN/Heim Grant, an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship, and a People’s Literature Award Mao-Tai Cup. His short story collection ‘It Never Rains on National Day’ was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize, and his novel ‘State of Emergency’ was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize. He currently lives in Brooklyn.