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February Flowers

February Flowers

by Fan Wu (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

An unlikely pair, seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan meet and form an immediate bond. Ming, innocent and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music and imagination. Yan is, by contrast, beautiful, sexy, wild and manipulative. Their friendship is brief, almost accidental, but intense, and it changes Ming's world forever.

Set in modern China, February Flowers captures a society torn between tradition and modernity, dogma and freedom. It is a meditation on friendship, family, love, loss and redemption, and how a background shapes a life.

`A first novel whose psychic terrain is the hinterland between girlhood and womanhood, lust and love, tradition and progress . . . Subtle and deftly paced, it's ultimately a story about sheer awakening' Observer

`February Flowers enters the past as it was lived, in real-time and without the props of hindsight' Financial Times



`An exquisitely beautiful book about that uncertain border between girlhood and womanhood, between passion and desire,

a country only too familiar to all women' SANDRA CISNEROS

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 01 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 0330447688
ISBN 13: 9780330447683

Media Reviews
An exquisitely beautiful book about that uncertain border between girlhood and womanhood, between passion and desire, a country only too familiar to all women. Fan Wu's story swept me away. --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street A first novel whose psychic terrain is the hinterland between girlhood and womanhood, lust and love, tradition and progress . . . subtle and deftly paced... [it is] ultimately a story about sheer awakening. -- The Observer (UK) An original and unforgettable story. Just like the flowers referred to in the title, Fan Wu's novel is brimming with passion, vitality, and hope. The girls in this book are the daughters and granddaughters of The Good Women of China, and are products of the society both modern, expansive, and communistically introvert. --Xinran, author of The Good Women of China February Flowers enters the past as it was lived, in real-time and without the props of hindsight. . . . Compelling. -- Financial Times (UK) From the Hardcover edition.
Author Bio
Fan Wu grew up on a state-run farm in southern China, where her parents were exiled during the Cultural Revolution. She moved to the United States in 1997 and began to write five years later. Her debut novel, February Flowers, has been translated into eight languages, and her short fiction has been anthologized and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Wu holds an MA from Stanford University and currently lives in California.