Little Aunt Crane

Resource Information

The work Little Aunt Crane represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Little Aunt Crane

Statement of responsibility

Geling Yan ; translated by Esther Tyldesley

Creator

• trueYan, Geling

Contributor

• Tyldesley, Esther

Author

• trueYan, Geling

Translator

• Tyldesley, Esther

Subject

• Chinese fiction -- Translations from English
• Families -- Fiction
• Human trafficking -- Fiction
• trueJapan -- History -- 1926-1945
• Mistresses -- China -- Fiction
• Orphans -- Fiction
• Wives -- China -- Fiction
• Women -- Japan -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Manchuria (China) -- Fiction
• Women -- Fiction
• China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction

Genre

• Translations from English
• Fiction

Language

• eng
• chi
• eng

Summary

In the last days of the World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. Only 16-year-old Tatsuru escapes. But Tatsuru's trials have just begun. As she flees, she falls into the hands of human traffickers. She is sold to a wealthy Chinese family, where she becomes Duohe - the second wife to the only son, and the secret bearer of his children. Against all odds, Duohe forms an unlikely friendship with the first wife Xiaohuan, united by the unshakeable bonds of motherhood and family. Spanning several tumultuous decades of Mao's rule, Little Aunt Crane is a novel about love, bravery and survival, and how humanity endures in the most unlikely of circumstances

Member of

• Xiaoyi Duohe

Cataloging source

NLE

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Chinese

Literary form

non fiction