Rao Pingru
Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China
Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China
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Our Story is a unique graphic memoir that tells the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. It is a memorial to Pingru and Meitang's epic romance, told through Pingru's exquisitely detailed paintings and handwritten notes. The book is a love letter, a work of folk art, and a historical testament.
Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 10 May 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose.
WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD
Rao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he first saw the beautiful Mao Meitang. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingru’s heart. It was a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years.
But when Meitang passed away in 2008, Pingru realised that their marriage and all the small moments and memories of a life together, would be lost to history. And so at the age of eighty-eight, in an outpouring of love and grief, Pingru began to paint.
Our Story is a memorial to Pingru and Meitang’s epic romance, told through Pingru’s exquisitely detailed paintings and handwritten notes. We see Pingru and Meitang through the decades, through both poverty and good fortune, and as they grow so too does China: the nation undergoing political turmoil and seismic cultural change.
A tale both tragic and inspiring, of enduring love and simple values, Our Story is an old-fashioned romance that unfolds within the rush of a rapidly changing nation. A love letter, a work of folk art and a historical testament, Our Story is a truly unique graphic memoir.
'A beautifully warm, personal, human story of life, love and family' Forbidden Planet
Weight: 850g
Dimension: 204 x 216 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781910931752
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