Love Must Not Be Forgotten (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Zhang Jie
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Short stories and novellas
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction, Political fiction
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Tradition, Communism or communists, Politics, Love or romance, Revolutions, Marriage, Friendship, Class consciousness, Oppression, Duty, China or Chinese people, Sacrifice, Persecution
Form and Content
Love Must Not Be Forgotten is a collection of five short stories and two novellas set in China in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. The stories are connected by explorations of two general subjects: the elusiveness of romantic love and the meaning of friendship. The title story uses the device of a daughter’s discovery of her dead mother’s diaries to show the devastating impact of sacrificing individual needs for the greater good. The diaries reveal that the mother had spent the better part of a lifetime devoted to a man she rarely saw, a man...
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