Crystal Wedding

Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book Crystal Wedding by Xiaobin Xu, Balestier Press
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Author: Xiaobin Xu ISBN: 9781911221135
Publisher: Balestier Press Publication: April 15, 2016
Imprint: Balestier Press Language: English
Author: Xiaobin Xu
ISBN: 9781911221135
Publisher: Balestier Press
Publication: April 15, 2016
Imprint: Balestier Press
Language: English

Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. However, after the political turmoil, Hua Zheng is framed as one of the perpetrators of the disturbances, and is sentenced to prison. Set against the background of China’s turbulent 1980s and 1990s, Crystal Wedding is a novel of searing emotional honesty.  (Winner of English Pen Translates Award).

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Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. However, after the political turmoil, Hua Zheng is framed as one of the perpetrators of the disturbances, and is sentenced to prison. Set against the background of China’s turbulent 1980s and 1990s, Crystal Wedding is a novel of searing emotional honesty.  (Winner of English Pen Translates Award).

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