February Flowers

by Fan Wu (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $17.76

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $122.19

  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

• Used

  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.51

  Seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan have very little in common: Ming, innocent and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music and imagination; Yan is, by contrast, sexy but cynical, beautiful but wild. She uses her looks to get what she wants from the many men in her life.

  When the two girls meet and become best friends, Ming's world is changed forever. She is attracted to Yan's free-spirit, while Yan yearns for the kind of stability Ming's seriousness can bring. But their differences in upbringing and ideologies ultimately drive them apart, leaving each to face her own dark secret alone.

  February Flowers is an insightful meditation on forbidden love, loss and redemption, and how a background shapes a life.

  `An original and unforgettable story . . . brimming with passion, vitality, and hope' XINRAN, author of The Good Women of China