Author opens new chapter

Award-winning Norwegian writer returns to China with publication on two sisters who went to Syria, Cheng Yuezhu reports.

Award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer Asne Seierstad is no stranger to China. Now on her third trip, she meets Chinese book lovers with the Chinese version of her latest work, Two Sisters. Her first trip in 1997 introduced her to a country undergoing sweeping changes.

"It's a country that is on such a fast track to modernize," Seierstad says. "Chinese people are very industrious and hardworking, and it seems like Chinese people are building stuff around the world now."