Sanmao: Stories of the Sahara [2019] hardback CHMER Expect selective recollections and shameless

Expect selective recollections and shameless revisionism

First recorded in the early fifteenth century by an unknown monk

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Sanmao: Stories of the Sahara [2019] hardback CHMER Expect selective recollections and shamelessThe book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s,