WILD GINGER
Anchee Min
£10.99
'Min has given the frontiers of Chinese Literature a giant push forward'
Vogue
Wild Ginger is an intense love story, set against the brutal backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution. Maple sees her schoolfriend Wild Ginger transform herself from outcast to the star of the Little Red Guards. In a time and a place where sexual relations are forgiven, Wild Ginger denies her feelings for Evergreen - but Maple has less trict scruples. When Maple and Evergreen plan to leave Shanghai together for a life in rural China, Maple underestimates both Wild Ginger's feelings of betrayal and the horrific efforts she will make to stop them...
Anchee Min
was born in Shanghai in 1957. As a child, she became a model member of the Red Guard. When she was seventeen, she was sent to work in the harsh conditions of a communal farm, from which she was later plucked by Madam Mao's associates to become a star of the Chinese propaganda film industry. After the death of Mao in 1976, Anchee Min was disgraced and left China for the US in 1984, and she now lives in California. Renowned for her memoir, Red Azalea, Wild Ginger is her third novel.