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BAOTOWN by Wang Anyi translated by Martha Avery (W. W. Norton: $17.95; 144 pp.)

“This is a marvelously interesting book because . . . the bedrock values come from the revolution, and the thousands of years behind that revolution; a crazy, impassioned love for the land (even its floods and famines) of China itself.”

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