BACK
a verse novel
Aimée loves the backs of people.
She feels the goodness that invisible drew
far more than a face can tell.
It is a space where memory, love,
and strength
meet and dance.
A place where a new day begins.
Narrated by Gill Mills
Robin 2
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HOME
a verse novel
Nora stands and walks
towards the moon.
While she walks, a light shines in her eyes
from inside her heart.
Like a little star in the galaxy:
a home inside a home.
Narrated by Gill Mills
Robin 1
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IN THE PRESS
A word is a bird too, once it has flown from the pen to fuse into a visual snapshot of tumultuous thoughts on displacement, cloud watching, and London.
KIERON DEVLIN
LECTURE, WRITER
LONDON
We say there is something going on behind OUR backs. What is behind other people's backs? What will we come to face? Pleasure or pain? Ailing Cai plunges us into the desperation of contingent tragedy, detached from motive, redeemed only by love.
I hope that those who lost a love before it could run its course can be inspired by the story of A Back Day to keep their beautiful memories and forget their pain.
JULIANA BARTOLINI
NEW YORK
MARTIN KEMP
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY OF ART AT OXFORD
About
Ling Cai is the author of books, including Home (verse novel), A Back Day (verse novel), Plastic Birds (poetry & drawing), My Loves (poetry & prose), The Green Tuscan Hills (poetry), and The Chinese Girl (short story). She began as a writer in Shanghai, Italy and New York and now lives in London.
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