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World Book Club: Lijia Zhang: Lotus

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Lijia Zhang

04/11/2018 GMT

Lijia Zhang: Lotus

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Lijia Zhang: Lotus

In Beijing discussing Lotus, about a migrant worker who ends up a prostitute in Shenzen

Lotus follows a young woman torn between past traditions and modern desires - as she carves out a life for herself in China’s “City of Sins”.

This month BBC World Book Club comes from Beijing with Lawrence Pollard.
 
The programme is a guest of the Bookworm, three rooms and a roof terrace full of books in Chinese and English, a fixture on the literary scene here for over a decade. 

Bestselling Chinese writer Lijia Zhang answers questions about her novel Lotus. Lijia taught herself English while working in a missile factory in a bid to become a writer and a journalist, and she’s written Lotus in English. It’s the story of a young migrant worker from the country who ends up as a prostitute in Shenzen, the economic powerhouse of Southern China. It’s also a deeply researched picture of the people who look up at the economic miracle from beneath and their struggles for dignity, love and a future they can believe in.

(Image: Lijia Zhang. Credit: Will Baker.)

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