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For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young -- a humble and touchingly loyal woman. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway, and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years.
