{"product_id":"9781602202443","title":"Memory and Oblivion","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis award-winning novel, by one of China's most prolific contemporary writers focuses on a middle-class family in near contemporary Shanghai and deals with themes that transcend time and place: family relationships and growing old.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired nurse Ling Deqing is astonished one day to find her long divorced 80-year-old husband, Xiao Zichen, standing on the doorstep. Following the death of his second wife, he has found his way back to his first home in a fit of absent-mindedness, a sign of the onset of dementia. Reluctant at first, Ling Deqing eventually takes him back to ease the burden on her daughter, Xiao Ying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMemory and Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e , the larger world disappears into the day-to-day problems of caring for a person with Alzheimer's. But within those problems, Ling Deqing discovers the beauty of family relationships, brought into sharp clarity against the backdrop of oblivion caused by Alzheimer's.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shanghai Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056294215920,"sku":"9781602202443","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781602202443_p0.jpg?v=1763813657","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781602202443","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}