Lesung Mei Shi & Musik Ricardo Volkert

In the organizer's words:

Reading with music: In "Tamarisks in the Desert", Shi Mei tells the moving story of her grandmother in 1920s China - a novel about pain, strength and hope. Guitarist Ricardo Volkert accompanies the reading with atmospheric sounds.

Book description
China 1920: At the age of six, little Orchid's foot bones are broken and bandaged. Her feet are crippled into tiny "lotus flowers" to increase her chances of marrying a rich man later on. Orchid suffers terrible pain for three agonizing years, but this is only the beginning of a typical Chinese woman's fate at the beginning of the 20th century ...
The family saga 'Tamarisk in the Desert' offers deep insights into a hidden world characterized by suffering, jealousy and loneliness.
A central aspect of the novel is the metaphor of the tamarisk, a resilient plant that thrives and blooms even in barren deserts.

About the author
Shi Mei was born in Aksu in the Taklamakan Desert in China, she grew up in the Gobi Desert and has lived in Germany since 1990 and in Herrsching am Ammersee since 2017. She works as an author and translator. The novel "Tamarisken in der Wüste", which tells the story of her grandmother, is Shi Mei's German debut novel.

Website: https://shimei.de/

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