The family has nine phoenixes

Author: Gao Mantang
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: A middle-aged widow loses her husband and, with nine daughters, experiences the vicissitudes of life. She had thought that with her daughters grown, she would finally enjoy a peaceful life, but instead finds that her nine daughters are like nine different plays, with each daughter carrying her own worries, performing a series of tragicomedies before her. This book uses Tingyu Lou as a perspective, vividly depicting the real-life experiences and emotional journeys of an ordinary family over more than two decades of China's reform and opening-up. It brings to life the profound changes in Chinese society, showing both the helplessness and melancholy of family fragmentation and reorganization, as well as a touch of warm nostalgia.