A Celestial Song, Lianke Yan, Sylvie Gentil

You Sipo, who had arrived in the village of the Balou mountains singing an opera aria, is now silent.
She has too much to do raising her four children alone, victims of a mysterious illness. Yan Lianke recaptures the power of the song that burst forth in "The Days, the Months, the Years," to tell the deeply poignant story of a mother ready to give her life to save her children from illness.
It is a mysterious and heartbreaking tale of maternal love, written in a language that has the bitter scent of wild grasses, turbulent like running water, opulent like an autumn cornfield bathed in light. Everything in it is improbable, yet everything in it is true, terribly true.