![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The question haunts Cheng Gong and Li Jiaqi, the two protagonists at the heart of this dense mysterious novel who, having grown up together in the 1980s, are determined as adults to discover the secret that has shaped the lives of their grandparents and, of course, their own.īoth take it in turns to narrate - although it doesn’t help that it’s sometimes hard to tell each character apart - as the story circles slowly backwards to that fateful night and in doing so forces Cheng Gong and Li Jiaqi into a reckoning with both their family history and the horrors of China’s buried past. What really happened in an abandoned water tower in a rural Chinese province at the height of the Cultural Revolution in 1967 to leave a man in a coma, a nail embedded into his skull? Cocoon by Zhang Yueran (World Editions £13.99, 328 pp) ![]()
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