The Book of Mother: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize by Violane Huisman singin and swingin and gettin merry like christmas 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution

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The Book of Mother: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize by Violane Huisman singin and swingin and gettin merry like christmas 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses RedA prize winning tour de force when it came out in France, Violaine Huisman's remarkable debut novel is about a daughter's inextinguishable love for her magnetic, mercurial mother. Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, aka 'Maman', smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn't have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalised after a