Candy the kiss trilogy

Candy the kiss trilogyAn international literary phenomenon now available for the first time in English translation Candy is a hip, harrowing tale of risk and desire, the story of a young Chinese woman forging a life for herself in a world seemingly devoid of guidelines. Hong, who narrates the novel, and whose life in many ways parallels the author's own, drops out of high school and runs away at age 17 to the frontier city of Shenzen. As Hong navigates the temptations of

into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam

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Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation

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