The Auspicious Time


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Description

The Auspicious Timeis a novel focusing on life in Beijing before and after the founding of New China, observing the earth-shaking changes around them from the perspective of a child named Auspicious. It is a children's novel with deep Beijing charm and Chinese feelings. With restrained and peaceful brushstrokes and poetic and tender narratives, the childhood stories in the old Beijing hutongs and courtyards are like live dramas, which are presented to contemporary children through the dust of history.

Author: Zhang Zhilu
Publisher: Unicorn
Published: 11/01/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781911397441
ISBN10: 1911397443
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

About the Author
Zhang Zhiluis a writer and playwright. His Literary works include the novelsThunderbolt Beibei, The Third Legion, Illegal Wisdom, Turtles Also on the InternetandQianwen's Dance. He has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and won numerous awards including the China Book Award, Andersen Award China division, Soong Ching Ling Children's Literature Award and Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award. He has also won the China Film Huabiao Award and the Cairo International Children's Film Festival Gold Award, and published the film theorymonographChinese Children's Film History.