Goodnight, Rose

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Goodnight, Rose by Chi Zijian is a poignant exploration of human resilience and solitude. Set in a remote town in northeastern China, it follows a widowed singer who has retreated from the bustling city life to find solace. Her relationship with a young boy from the neighbourhood unveils the complexities of human connection, memory, and the transformative power of kindness amidst isolation.
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Goodnight, Rose

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Ji Lianna passionately tends to her flower garden and avoids looking back at her life with remorse. Xiao'e does not know the first thing about plants and cannot stop thinking about her past.

Eighty-year-old Ji Lianna is a child of the Jewish diaspora, and young Xiao'e is not sure whether she is human at all. The two women could not be more different. Yet, in a numbingly cold Harbin flat in an old Russian villa, an unlikely friendship blossoms between them.

Soon their dark histories come back to haunt them as they realise they have more in common than just a shared address.

Goodnight, Rose by Chi Zijian explores this unique relationship, blending past and present in a tale of survival, identity, and the bonds that can form in the most unexpected of circumstances.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780734399106

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 October 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: Viking Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 186.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 180

About the Author

Chi Zijian has received critical acclaim for several of her novels, including the 2008 Mao Dun Literary Prize for The Last Quarter of the Moon. She has also won the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Award three times.

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