Le Dit de Tian-yi - François Cheng
- In French. First published in 1998.
During a trip to China, the author finds once again the painter Tian-yi, who gives him his written confessions. Tian-yi lived before the war in a bubbling China. Later, in the 1950s, he went to the West, where he discovered another vision of art and life.
Returning to his country, which was subjected to the upheavals of the revolution, he wanted to find two loved ones: Yumei, the lover, and Haolang, the friend. But a dramatic story has taken them into turmoil where Tian-yi, in turn, will be caught ...
Returning to his country, which was subjected to the upheavals of the revolution, he wanted to find two loved ones: Yumei, the lover, and Haolang, the friend. But a dramatic story has taken them into turmoil where Tian-yi, in turn, will be caught ...
-> A well written, quite touching and soul reaching kind of a book about what was life back in the 50s in China and what it takes to keep, find and join friend wherever they happen to be in their life.