Lisa's Sorrow
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[The woman after the collapse of the old world] She was once a Russian nobleman, the wife of the leader, a delicate white flower. The storm of the October Revolution destroyed her greenhouse and threw her into the foreign country of Shanghai. From lady to dancer, from dancer to prostitute - Lisa exchanged her body for bread, exposed her dignity in front of thousands of people, and buried her love in the arms of countless strangers. After ten years of exile, she lost her country, her husband, her purity, and finally her health. Racked by illness, she was left with only sorrow for her fate and despair for her homeland. Jiang Guangci wrote the history of a woman's sinking in the torrent of revolution with cold and affectionate writing. "Lisa's Lament" is not only the lament of the Belarusian diaspora, but also a complex elegy about class, gender and survival. It allows us to see: when history rolls over individuals, in those forgotten corners, there are people who are dying silently in the most humiliating way.
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