Daughters of Shandong pink And he can't work out

And he can't work out why she stopped

and the unexpected—each narrated secondhand by the elusive Ivan Belkin

Four of the English writer's finest works

where her parents are waiting

Frequently imitated and widely influential

Daughters of Shandong pink And he can't work outA propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story Daughters are the Ang familys curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after