
Linda Grant talks to Alex Clark about her novel The Story of the Forest
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The Impact of Confessions on Wang Xiaobo
I always thought my confessions had great literary potential. After all, I wrote them in a guest house with nothing else to do like a novelist. The high-up said, this is too simple. They taught me to rewrite it. It illustrates the impact on the person of having to fabricate these aspects of their own life. He had found his way of telling forbidden past when he was in America. This is very unique. Just like my father's generation, they sent down to the countryside to become better youth. And then normally they go back to the city and then resume the government job. Then they marry them the rest of their life. But in Hiski, it's very
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