A collection of 36 letters, written over three years between best-selling author and social commentator Professor Long Yingtai and her son Andreas Walther. The letters focus on issues about the differences between generation and cultures.
Consisting of 68 essays, this book includes the death of father, the aging of mother, the departure of son, the missing of friends, the solidarity of brothers, failure and fragility, and apodictic nihility. It's a penetrating, dolorous and beautiful diary about life and death. From the innocently joyous Take Your Time, Child to the frank and miserable Dear Andre, Long Yingtai spares no effort t…
Long YingTai, as the spontaneous and sharp pen of the Chinese world, writes her work with a great amount of heroism. However, it is amazing that the book Child, Take Your Time is very affectionate. In the book, Long Yingtai is a mother and a profound thinker ,thinking about the origins of both life and love. Faced with two kids (Huafei and Hua'an) from the time of their birth, childhood and lat…