In Naked Earth, Eileen Chang peels back the red curtain on Maoist China with shocking irony spanning more than one layer. Love tries to bloom amid slogans, paranoia, and political purges, but ideology has a habit of stomping on sentiment. It’s romance meets revolution – awkwardly.
Painting: Today I painted a field
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
- Naked Earth by Eileen Chang
- Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The God of the Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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