num_pages: 196
description: Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away. It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggle to endure silence, solitude and the shame of sexual abuse, but it is also an incisive portrait of China's new urban youth, who have hidden behind their modern lifestyle all the poverty and cruelty of their past.
language: English
title: Village of Stone
titlecomplete: Village of Stone
genres: Asian Literature, Fiction, Chinese Literature, China, Asia, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, 21st Century, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 620
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Shortlist
publisher: Vintage Books