Double Thunder

Li Tai-tai, known as Bittersweet, returns to her hometown of Guilin, China in the 1970s after having lived 15 years in the United States. Her quiet routine is disrupted when a mysterious blue-eyed Chinese man appears on her doorstep and, without explanation, gives her a seemingly ordinary quilt. Hidden inside it, she discovers hundreds of silk pages containing a long, intimate confession written by her unidentified visitor, Hardu. As Bittersweet reads, the narrative shifts between her prese...