The Passage of Roses - Tie Ning Genre:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Schmidt takes us on a

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The Passage of Roses - Tie Ning Genre:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Schmidt takes us on aWhile the fervour of the Red Guards consumes 1970s Beijing, Mei comes of age in a once grand courtyard dominated by her grandmother, a survivor of violence who inflicts the same kind of control upon her family that she once resisted. But the matriarch is unable to repel the political storm that comes to their home and leaves death and a traumatised young girl in its wake. Years later, Mei becomes an artist, slowly committing memory to canvas. When the