The Character of Fatherhood

<p>For Zhang Zuo, his father’s darkest moments hold tender memories. Abandoned by his parents, his Nanjing childhood was a lonely one. But when he visits his father, a scholar sent to a life of drudgery in the countryside at the behest of the revolution, the two bond for the first time.</p><p>Their paths cross years later when the son is tasked with editing the now-famed academic’s writings, discovering his family’s past, a bittersweet story of estrangements and reconciliations at the mercy of historical turmoil. But it is only by tracing his father’s road that he can understand their lifetimes apart.</p>