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The Long March Home

Zoë S. Roy

Paperback | Pages: 270 pages

Rating: 4.28 | 36 Users | 24 Reviews

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Title	:	The Long March Home
Author	:	Zoë S. Roy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 270 pages
Published	:	November 7th 2011 by Inanna Publications & Education
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia

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The novel is the story of three generations of women, Agnes, a grandmother who as a young woman went to China as a Canadian missionary nurse and who falls in love with a Chinese doctor who acts as her interpreter. Shortly after anti-western sentiment sends her home in a hurry she discovers she is pregnant by him. Attempts by her, and later their daughter, to contact him fail. Her daughter, Meihua, goes to China to look for her father and ends up marrying a Chinese man and teaching art. The Cultural Revolution sees her sent to prison as a American spy suspect and anti-revolutionary, and her husband confined to a gulag. Their children, still at home, are raised by the family's illiterate servant, Yao. Yao's crude manner and resourcefulness partly shield Yezi, Meihua's daughter, and the novel's main character, from family tragedy, poverty and political discrimination, negotiating their survival during the revolution that she barely understands. Only after her mother released, does Yezi hear about her foreign grandmother, Agnes, who lives in Boston and has lost contact with the family since Yezi's birth. Curious about her American ancestry, Yezi now a teenager, joins Agnes in the U.S. Reading her grandmother's diaries helps Yezi get to know her grandmother as a young Canadian missionary and her life in China with the man who is her grandfather, and who her mother longed to find.

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ISBN:	192670827X (ISBN13: 9781926708270)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.28 From 36 Users | 24 Reviews

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The first time I laid my eyes on The Long March Home, a new novel by Zoe Roy, I thought it was about some sort of revolutionary movement in Tibet, as the cover bears the image of two women, dressed in Tibetan-style clothing, being denounced in public with a few indignant fists thrusting around them. As I read on, I started to realise that this novel has nothing to do with either Tibet or Tibetans, and the choice of the cover is simply a mistake by the designer who probably has limited knowledge

Compelling plot let down by mediocre quality of writing

Maos experimental Cultural Revolution wreaked havoc on the lives of the people in China. Its idealism failed miserably but it impacted the lives of many people both in China and also in the West. In this first novel by Zoe S. Roy, we gain an intimate portrait of how it affected three generations of women, their family and its lasting effect on their lives. While not a historical novel, we garner a lot of historical facts throughout the book. Some of us as students and idealists in the West,

Title: The Long March HomeAuthor: Zoe S. RoyPages: 270Year: 2011Publisher: Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Zoe Roy has written a very poignant novel with The Long March Home. Set during the Cultural Revolution in China for the most part, this story is very realistic and thought-provoking. It was so easy during this time to be misunderstood, and then accused, thinks one of the main characters, Meihua. The author herself lived under the late Mao Zedongs rule and therefore has a lot of

This novel was a story set in the time of the Chinese Red Revolution. It is primarily the compelling story of Yezi, a girl born during the Red Terror, and the effect it had on her life and her family. I am always intrigued by totalitarian systems and their impact on individuals. To what degree do citizens 'go along', how much do they struggle - internally/externally? I appreciated this book for the insight into the day-to-day life of a family suffering in varying ways at the hands of the

Excellent, moving, informative of the time.

Lovely! The reader feels as if he/she were listening to an oral history of a family. The story is warm and heartfelt. And, although not all the memories or stories within these pages is significant to the plot, it doesnt matter since, as in all family histories, the stories are interesting, human and add a depth of character to the story as a whole. Family plays an important role throughout this book. The author manages to convey the fear, uncertainty and isolation of the people of Communist