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Translation-Part 1 I was so touched by this story and thought I should try to translate it. Here is the first part of it. Lonesome | by Wu Nien-chen (Part one) A Zhao and her father were not close at all. She hardly ever called him "father" even. The father was actually her stepfather. Her mother was divorced when A Zhao was four years old. Her mother left A Zhao to her grandmother, and went to the North and tried to make a living there. When A Zhao was in second grade of primary school, her mother went back home with a man, and said that was A Zhao’s new father. A Zhao couldn’t recall if she’d called him father or not at that time, but she remembered that man gave her a red envelope and she changed her last name to his since then. The change of last name caused A Zhao a lot of trouble. Her classmates kept asking her about it which made her very upset. This new father was not only distant to her. She never seemed like him. A Zhao was brought to the north by her mother to “reunion” with the family when she was in the third grade of high school. She heard it was that man’s idea. He said it would help her to get into a better university if she could move to the north to go to high school there. At that time, A Zhao's younger brother, the son of her mother and that man, was in primary school already. (to be continued)
Nov 29, 2015 4:59 AM
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Translation-Part 1

I was so touched by this story and thought I should try to translate it. Here is the first part of it.

Lonesome | by Wu Nien-chen (Part one)


A Zhao and her father were not close at all. She hardly ever called him "father" even.

The father was actually her stepfather. Her mother was divorced when A Zhao was four years old. Her mother left A Zhao to her grandmother, and went to the North and tried to make a living there. When A Zhao was in the second grade of primary school, her mother went back home with a man, and said that he was A Zhao’s new father. A Zhao couldn’t recall if she’d called him Father or not at that time, but she remembered that the man gave her a red envelope and she had changed her last name to his since then. The change of her last name caused A Zhao a lot of trouble. Her classmates kept asking her about it which made her very upset. This new father was not only distant to her. She never seemed like him.

A Zhao was brought to the north by her mother to “reunion reunite” with the family when she was in the third grade of high school. She heard it was that man’s idea. He said it would help her to get into a better university if she could move to the north to go to high school there. At that time, A Zhao's younger brother, the son of her mother and that man, was in primary school already.

(to be continued)

 

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November 29, 2015
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