Turbulence

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Golden Dog and Water Girl are peasants whose love story unfolds against the political upheavals of post-Mao China. The reforms that were supposed to liberate the countryside bring new forms of corruption, and the couple's romance becomes inseparable from the power struggles of a society reinventing itself from the ground up. Jia Pingwa's novel uses the intimacy of a love story to measure the human cost of political change — the way grand transformations arrive in small lives as disruption, loss, and the constant effort to hold onto someone while everything around you shifts. A novel about two people trying to love each other in a country that won't stay still long enough to let them.