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Mou Sen's Work Someone to Talk to

Date: April 21-22 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

Someone To Talk To is a full-length novel by Liu Zhenyun, published in 2009, awarded many prizes including the Eighth Mao Dun Literary Prize, translated into over 20 languages, and hailed as the "Chinese One Hundred Years of Solitude." Cao Qing'e, born in Yanjin, Henan, got critically ill at the age of 78. Lying dying, she thought about her life. When she was 3 years old, her father died an unnatural death in Qinyuan, Shanxi. When she was 5, her stepfather Yang Moxi married into their family, renamed Wu Moxi. After her mother carried on a clandestine love affair with another man and ran away from home, Wu Moxi took her away from Yanjin to search for her mother. She was abducted halfway and then taken to some places before ending up in Qinyuan.