Map of loss. Tang B.

An epic debut novel, whose action takes place against the backdrop of a changing China after a cultural revolution. The novel about dreams and life that remain behind.

Ityan has been living in America for almost ten years when his mother informs him on the phone that his father had left their village house and did not return. And although Ityan did not see his father all these years and they broke up, not forgiving each other what happened many years ago, he decides to return to China. Once in his relatives and already such foreign lands, Ityan is trying to restore the events of the past and at the same time understand the China bureaucracy impassable for the alien. The evasiveness with which the mother behaves with, only exacerbates the situation with the search. There is only one way out: to turn to the only person who once understood him.

Hanwan is a city girl, she was born and raised in Shanghai, dreamed of entering the institute and learning to an engineer, but her as it as And all graduates of city schools were “distributed” to the village, where former schoolchildren should raise the agriculture of China. There she meets Ityan, who is so unlike the rest of the village guys, secretly reading the book and dreams of getting an education that is not available to him.

years later, Ityan teaches at the American University, and Hanwan is a social lady, the wife of a high -ranking Chinese official. Having met in many years, they go in search of the missing old man, plunging into the past - their own countries.

“Map of Loss” - a subtle novel about the family, forgiveness, about attempts to change fate and what true is true house.