The Middle Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom

For Grace, the ardent yet puzzled heroine of Andrea Barrettâ€™s third novel, this trip has been planned as a three-week stay: sheâ€™s to play dutiful wife to Walter, her prominent scientist husband, at the 1986 Beijing International Conference on the Effects of Acid Rain. Walter is twelve years older than Grace, and as sour as the rain he studies; he and Grace are at a particularly troubled point in their marriage. Their tightly circumscribed visit, however, becomes a journey infinitely less tidy and more complex as Grace falls forever out of love with her husband and very much in love with this country and its culture. In the chaos of the Beijing streets and in the home of her new friends Dr. Yu and her son Zaofan, Grace finds the web of life sheâ€™s been too lost to perceive. â€œTime you spend in the past and future is time you spend alone,â€ Dr. Yu tells her. â€œBut between them there is a middle kingdom, both feet planted here.â€
Country USA
Brand Pocket Book
Manufacturer Pocket Books
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780671729608
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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