by JustinHill (Author)
When Space Rocket Factory Number Two closes down in the small Chinese town of Shaoyang, it is the signal for the old culture to confront the new. Party Secretary Li cannot cope, and commits suicide, but not before daubing a series of slogans onto sheets of rice paper and hanging them outside his bedroom window (Our Leaders Are Drunk On The Taste Of Corruption reads one; The Party Officials Are Screwing Our Daughters, reads another).Those left behind have to clear up after him: Old Zhu has to keep Party Secretary Li's ashes in the bottom of his wardrobe. On the other side of the courtyard, their aria singing neighbour Madam Fan is temporarily silenced by the tragedy. Meanwhile Old Zhu's son, Da Shan, has returned from the city and fallen in love with not one but two childhood sweethearts.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 324
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0753813203
ISBN 13: 9780753813201
Book Overview: Justin Hill is a highly talented and promotable young author Rights sold in six countries already - including US, France, Holland, Italy and Germany Justin Hill lived in China for many years 'This fine novel... THE DRINK AND DREAM TEAHOUSE is very well written and creative, a wonderful antidote to much writing about China' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'An intelligent and interesting novel...captures beautifully the subtle ways in which suspicion exists within a community of people raised without democratic freedom' THE TIMES 'A vivid portrait of a small community in provincial China' DAILY MAIL