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The female version of "Letter from a Strange Woman" is the first Chinese version of the novel by MacArthur Genius Award winner and overseas Chinese writer Li Yiyun. Navigates the two levels of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, with great candor and insight. Lilia has been married three times, raised five children, and is currently looking forward to the birth of her seventeenth grandchild. She spent her whole life helping people around her to understand themselves. At the age of eighty-five, she became fascinated by the diary of her old friend Roland - they had a romantic relationship when they were young - and she wanted to see what she could leave for future generations. The diary records Roland's love affairs in detail. Lilia took the trouble to add footnotes to everything. A secret relationship that lasted for decades was slowly revealed, including the existence of his daughter Lucy, whom even Roland himself did not know about. Flame-like passion, annihilating sorrow, the human heart goes back and forth between these two poles, but has to find a destination and exit to continue cruising. Li Yiyun gives a dazzling tribute to life in the novel, not only about Lilia, but also about everyone who comes and goes in our lives.