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Loading... La historia de Pingru y Meitang (Spanish Edition) (original 2013; edition 2018)by Rao Pingru (Author)
Work InformationOur Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China by Rao Pingru (2013)
![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() Una storia come tante, che attraversa la storia e i cambiamenti della Cina e che diventa esemplare anche grazie all'uso dei disegni di Pingru che ne illustrano ogni pagina. In Pingru e Meitang trovo quella combinazione di innocenza, casualità e grazia così vicina a quanto della Cina raccontava Parise alla fine degli anni '60 (e agli albori della rivoluzione culturale), inclusa la grande attenzione per il cibo che popola queste pagine. Una storia semplice, che qualcuno forse oggi connoterebbe con la parola di moda "resilienza" ma che a me viene anzitutto da associare alle parole accettazione e pazienza, che hanno reso possibile l'unione dei due protagonisti. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. Rao Pingru was twenty-four-year-old soldier when he was reintroduced to Mao Meitang, a girl he'd known in childhood and now the woman his father had arranged for him to marry. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingru's heart: a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. Our Story is Pingru and Meitang's epic but unassuming romance. It follows the couple through the decades, in both poverty and good fortuneâ??looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change. When Meitang passes away in 2008, Pingru memorializes his wife and their relationship the only way he knows how: through painting. In an outpouring of love and grief, he puts it all on paper. Spanning 1922 through 2008, Our Story is a tales of enduring love and simple values that is at once tragic and inspiring: an old-fashioned story that unfolds in a nation undergoing cataclysmic change. (With gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout, and a distinctive exposed spine emulating the original Chinese design.) No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)951.05092History and Geography Asia China and region History 1949- (People's Republic, 20th century)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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