Man Asian Literary Prize まん・あじあんぶんがくしょう
Edition 3 (2009)
Literary awardNovel awardAsian literary award
Winners
1 peopleSet in a Chinese riverside town, the novel follows tangled relationships, buried guilt, and a search for redemption. As private secrets surface, the clash between individual fate and social contradiction comes into view.
Buried guilt and secrets slowly spread through a town by the river.
368 pages
family and relationshipspower and corruptionredemption and memorymodern Chinese history