At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China Hilary Mantel the book looks afresh at

the book looks afresh at celebrated artists such as Francis Bacon

Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh

The Moth Snowstorm is part elegy

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At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China Hilary Mantel the book looks afresh at'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find' Barbara DemickIn 1962, Edward Wong's father, disillusioned with Communism, fled China for Hong Kong and later the USA. From then on, he rarely spoke of his homeland, or his years crisscrossing the country in Mao's People's Liberation Army. Much later, Edward became Beijing bureau