This beautiful, lyrically-written novel is a deep love story, intense historical reflection, and absorbing family saga with traditional mythological tales interwoven along the way. The often intensely sad events of Yuying and Jinyi’s lives in China's tumultuous years between 1942 and 2000 are heart-breakingly told and although this is often a depressing story it captures the impact a country’s political history has on an ordinary couple’s lives.
