Spotlight on rural pain

Jia Pingwa's latest novel is as much an account of a wronged woman as it is about the desertion of villages in China. Yang Yang reports.

Jia Pingwa's new novel, Ji Hua, narrates the story of a woman who is freed after three years of being abducted.

The author, who won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, China's top literary award, for his earlier novel Qin Qiang (Qinqiang Opera), has named his latest book after an imaginary flower.