Eastern Concealment - Zong Pu

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Résumé :
In times of war, sacrifices must be made to hold families together and defend a fractured nation… After a gruelling trek from the north, the L? family is finally reunited in Kunming, but the hardships of war are not over. Disoriented in unfamiliar surroundings, they do their best to rebuild some semblance of normality amid the hardships of rural living and the constant terror of Japanese bombing raids. In the struggle to survive, the L? children are forced to shoulder burdens beyond their years as they try to piece together a shattered childhood among the rugged beauty of Yunnan. Even in the face of grinding poverty, the family strive to find beauty in this land of deep blue skies, where so much danger lurks. Meanwhile, life proves insufferable for the family and friends left behind in Beiping, where opium is often the only solace against the despairs of war. The war against fascism grinds on. Will there ever be hope for a better tomorrow?

Biographie:
Madam Zong Pu was born in Beijing in 1928 and raised in Tanghe county, Henan province. She graduated from Tsinghua University Foreign Languages Department and finished her career with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Foreign Languages Research Institute. Her father, Feng Youlan (1895-1990), is regarded as the pre-eminent Chinese philosopher of the 20th century whose magnum opus was the publication in 1934 of the two-volume History of Chinese Philosophy. Like her father, who lived to the ripe old age of 95, Madam Zong Pu, who is 90 this year (2018), is what you'd call 'a chip off the old block' in terms of her longevity, and is still actively writing and managing the translation into English of her wonderfully rich novels so they can be published internationally and appreciated by non-Chinese readers all over the world.