Book
February flowers / Fan Wu.
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- ISBN: 9780385662918 (hc)
- Physical Description: 242 p.
- Publisher: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2007], c2006.
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Set in modern China, February Flowers tells the stories of two young womenâs journeys to self-discovery and reconciliation with the past.
Seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan have very little in common other than studying in the same college. Ming, idealistic and preoccupied, lives in a world of books, music, and imagination. Yan, by contrast, is sexy, cynical, and wild, with no sense of home. Yet when the two meet, they soon become best friends. Their friendship is brief, almost accidental, but intense, and
it changes Mingâs world forever.
Insightful, sophisticated, and rich with complex characters, 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.
