Mian bao sui yue
(The time of bread)
Tie, Ning
(text)
Yu, Rong
(illus.)
Hangzhou.: Zhe jiang shao nian er tong chu ban she (Zhejiang Juvenile and Children’s Publishing House), 2021. – 138 p.
(Series: Dang dai ming jia shao nian xuan ben – Tie Ning zuo pin)
ISBN 978-7-5597-1531-9
Childhood memories | Short story | Anthology | Family
Reading age: 10+
White Ravens issue: 2022
This book contains a selection of stories by the renowned novelist Tie Ning. Most are based on memories of her early years – when a little girl first tasted the bitterness of being deceived by an adult, when a father developed a strange enthusiasm for baking during the hardest years of his family’s life, when a cat came to the house unexpectedly and was cast out after four years. Those old days are brought back to life in nostalgic flashbacks so that readers get a sense of the smells and flavours, as well as the sentiments and wisdom that grew over time. Tie Ning is the author of »Mei gui men« (The rose door), »Da yu nü« (The large bathers), »O, Xiang xue« (Oh, Xiangxue) and many other prose works. Her books have won, among others, the prestigious Luxun Literature Prize and the Chinese National Award for Outstanding Short-Length Novels, and have been adapted for films and TV series. Tie Ning is the current chairwoman of the China Writers Association and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. [FW, ZX]