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The Mourner

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The funeral mourner has long since resigned herself to her fate. Even in her tiny village, she is lonely: her husband expects her to serve silently, her daughter has long since left, and her fellow villagers are convinced that her arrival in the house brings misfortune. Her husband also believes this, though it doesn't stop him from living on money that "reeks of death." Everyone insists that no one forced the mourner to choose this kind of work, but circumstances are stronger than words—she is forced to be responsible for her family and live among those who despise her, yet desperately need her in their darkest days. Talking about happiness is unacceptable in the village, and the mourner doesn't even consider her own misfortune—she is a woman, after all, and things could have been much worse, so she views life sardonically, though not without a certain bewilderment.

But even in a predetermined destiny, encounters happen that change everything—and then the world slowly begins to fill with color, and you begin to ask yourself obvious questions that hadn't occurred to you before. The debut novel by Anglo-Chinese writer Wenyan Lu, winner of the SI Leeds Prize, is a poignant and crystal-clear tragicomedy about self-discovery, the inevitability of understanding, and how even in scorched earth, hope sometimes blossoms.
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