Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away. It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggle to endure silence, solitude and the shame of sexual abuse, but it is also an incisive portrait of China's new urban youth, who have hidden behind their modern lifestyle all the poverty and cruelty of their past.
| ISBN: | 9780099459071 |
| Publication date: | 4th August 2005 |
| Author: | Xiaolu Guo |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 183 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Interior life Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Social issues |