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A young woman named Lin-Lang has served a long jail term for terrorist actions against Taiwan’s rulmg KMT party. The society she returns to is very different from the one she left: former radicais have gone soft and become middle-class, the former political opposition has become respectableand lost its edge, everyone has grown nakedly materialistic. But the biggest shock for Lin-Lang is the discovery that her lover—the man who taught her radical politics, the man who got her pregnant, the man she went to jail for—has married someone else. He and his wife have a child, and he runs a small coffee-shop which doubles as a meeting-place for students of Chinese mysticism. Almost deranged with shock and the sense of betrayal, Lin-Lang impulsively kidnaps the man’s child…Read More »