Binu and the Great Wall
By: Su Tong ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt
Edition: Large print.
Series: Myths -- 9; Myths -- 9.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780753180624; 9780753180631
Subjects: Mengjiangnü (Legendary character); Fiction; Quests (Expeditions); Great Wall of China (China); History
Work titles: Bi Nu
Description: A reimagining of the myth of the girl whose tears collapsed the Great Wall-the seminal myth in Chinese culture. In Peach village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learned to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then, one day, Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles and forced to labor on a project of terrifying ambition-the building of the Great Wall.
Notes: This translation originally published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2007.