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Chinese Novel A Hit, But Who Wrote It?

Foreign publishers have rushed to buy the rights to a blog-turned-novel by an anonymous Chinese author living in America, some before even reading a translation. From The Guardian: Under the Hawthorn Tree, a tragic love story set during the Cultural Revolution, is written under the pen name of Ai Mi. All that is known about the author is that she leads a reclusive life in Florida, having gone there