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i've just finished a book called `the vagrants` which depicts how life in 1970s china replicated 1984-conditions. worth reading if you can locate a copy. I/G romance included - ne'er-do-well bashi falls in love with 12-year-old plain girl and wants to marry her. ...Set in China in the late 1970s, The Vagrants follows a group of people in a small town after the dramatic and harrowing execution of a young woman. Writing with profound emotion, and in the superb tradition of fiction by such writers as Orhan Pamuk and J. M. Coetzee, Yiyun Li gives us a stunning novel that is at once a picture of life in a special part of the world during a historical period, a universal portrait of human frailty and courage, and a mesmerizing work of art"...
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