Katya Balen

As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary VOGUE Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series for family violence and romance abound IRISH TIMES A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them Incredible SUNDAY TIMES A revelatory moving and tender tale of hopes fears and change PETER FRANKOPAN A Sunday Times Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s in a society about to change beyond recognition It is about Leiya who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village Still underage she bluffs her way on to the factory floor It is about June who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal to attend university rather than raise pigs It is about Siyue ranked second to bottom of her English class who decides to prove her teachers wrong And it is about Sam who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets With unprecedented access to the lives hopes homes dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years Private Revolutions gives a voice to those whose stories go untold At

Octubre y su padre viven en el bosque. Octubre está a punto de cumplir once años y es feliz en la naturaleza. Habitan una cabaña que su padre ha construido y conoce los árboles, las piedras, el lago y las estrellas como la palma de su mano. Asi son las cosas y asi deberian seguir siendo. Hasta el dia en que Octubre cumple once años. Es el año en que Octubre rescata una cria de lechuza. El año en que su padre cae del arbol mas alto del bosque y tiene que ir al hospital. El año en que la mujer que dice ser su madre, y que se marcho cuando ella tenia cuatro años, vuelve. El año en que todo cambia. Novela Ganadora de la Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022