In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and \'70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of Yan Lianke\'s father and uncles, as well as his own.
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Yan\'s parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and as a child he dreams of fried scallion buns, and once steals from his father to buy a sesame seed cake.
In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and \'70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of Yan Lianke\'s father and uncles, as well as his own
