num_pages: 448
description: A strikingly original debut novel—and an international literary sensation—based on the author's experience growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. • "An original writer of real talent." — The New York Times Book ReviewWhen twelve-year-old Lian Shui accompanies her mother to reeducation camp, no one imagines that Lian will receive an education. But detained along with her mother are some of China's greatest thinkers and they take an interest in young Lian. She in turn delivers lectures of her own to the creatures inhabiting a pond she dubs "The Lily Theater." These ideas inform her life when she returns to school and reunites with her best friend Kim, a peasant girl through whom Lian ultimately learns about the painful failings of Mao's teachings-and of life.
language: English
title: The Lily Theater
titlecomplete: The Lily Theater
genres: Fiction, Chinese Literature, China, Historical, Roman, Dutch Literature, Asia, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 1740
places: China
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Gouden Ezelsoor
publisher: Anchor