China Daily's top 10 books of 2013

6 Going Out of Liang Village

By Liang Hong

Going Out of Liang Village.[File photo]

The second installation of the author’s survey of Liang village uncovers unnerving states of its outgoing residents. Representative of the 250 million migrant workers nationwide, they scatter to different parts of the world with zero sense of belonging — they’re detached from both their hometown and new settlements where there is limited room for growth. Yan Lianke, a renowned writer, says the book “has come to the rescue of the country’s nonfiction”.

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