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Penguin Press
April 2013
On Sale: April 18, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 1594205027
EAN: 9781594205026
Kindle: B008EKOQ0I
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Fiction Family Life
"If a panda gets pregnant, the entire nation celebrates. But
if a woman gets pregnant she's treated like a criminal. What
kind of country is this?"
Meili, a young
peasant woman is married to Kongzi, a village school
teacher, and a distant descendant of the great sage
Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate to carry on
his illustrious line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant without
waiting for official permission. When family planning
officers storm into the village to arrest violators of the
population control policy, mother, father and daughter are
forced to make a fugitive life on the
river.
Meili dreams of reaching a place called
Heaven, a vast stinking wilderness of toxic waste, where the
men eventually turn infertile and the family planning
officers don't dare to go. But as their troubled quest to
give birth to a son continues, it becomes clear that Kongzi
and Meili are not just raging against the state -- they are
at war with one
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