Overview
These are the stories of the people living in China’s liminal sprawl, who seek a fresh start somewhere other than a neglected countryside that's no longer home and a metropolis indifferent to their existence. As each small cruelty only compounds their humiliation, will their hopes ever pan out, or are the gates to a new future already rusted shut?
A dentist''s girlfriend with cavities, an elderly career criminal with no-one to turn to but the police, a dismissed housemaid on the way to a back-alley abortion clinic and a crane operator who’s never had a man treat her right, for whom gold is cashed-out love.
These are the stories of the people from China’s liminal sprawl, who seek a fresh start beyond a neglected countryside that''s no longer home and a metropolis indifferent to their existence. As each small cruelty only compounds their humiliation, will their hopes pan out, or are the gates to a new future rusted shut?
- | Author: Yi Zhou, Robin Gilbank, Hu Zongfeng
- | Publisher: ACA Publishing Limited
- | Publication Date: Oct 31, 2025
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781838906061
- | ISBN-10: 1838906061