Criminal Lu Yanshi

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In early 1980s China, Miralti transitions from military arts troupe dancer to independent writer as the Reform era cracks open everything she thought she knew. Attitudes toward love, sex, freedom, and democracy are being upended overnight, and the society she grew up in is becoming unrecognizable — exhilarating and terrifying in equal measure. Yan Geling sets this novel at the precise moment when China's cultural ice began to thaw, and follows a woman who must invent a new identity without a map for the territory she's entering. A novel about the vertiginous freedom of a country reinventing itself — and about the woman trying to write her own life while the rules are still being rewritten.