num_pages: 512
description: This book writes about the life in Chongqing, the so-called 'wartime capital' in 1944-1945. In this novel, the author writes about a poor clerk's family, in which the estrangement between mother and wife and the economic pressure cause a family tragedy, the wife goes away, and the husband dies of lung disease. When the wife goes back to Chongqing, her mother-in-law has moved away with grandchild to somewhere unknown. When the hero of this novel is breathing his last, the beating of gongs and drums resound to the skies, as people are celebrating the victory, burning dragon lanterns with fireworks and firecrackers...
language: English
title: Cold Nights
titlecomplete: Cold Nights
genres: Fiction, Chinese Literature, China, World War II, Asia, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 138
publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press