Heaven River

Author: Wang Ling
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This is the heartwarming growth story of a teenage girl and a transcendent emotional confession. In the early 1960s, a group of released prisoners from Beijing established a settlement called "Heavenly River" on the desolate Gobi Desert. Mei Xia'er, initially known as "The Flower of Heaven" and later as "The Bastard of Beijing," was the illegitimate daughter of a former revolutionary elder and a former famous "small red treasure" from Old Shanghai. Mei Xia'er fell in love with her father's rival, a man much older than herself. To clear her teacher's wrongful accusation, she gave up her education and steadfastly waited outside the high wall. When the man she loved was released from prison, she, however, walked down that narrow path, burdened by the guilt of killing her mother.