The Passage of Roses Format:Hardback The Emperor Haile Selassie has

The Emperor Haile Selassie has been brutally murdered

Could one small event have such a momentous outcome

Meehan's work begins in intimate feeling but is ever-focused on the world

have run the acclaimed Over the Edge readings series since 2003

The Passage of Roses Format:Hardback The Emperor Haile Selassie hasWhile the fervour of the Red Guards consumes 1970s Beijing, Mei comes of age in a once grand courtyard dominated by her grandmother, a survivor of violence who inflicts the same kind of control upon her family that she once resisted. But the matriarch is unable to repel the political storm that comes to their home and leaves death and a traumatised young girl in its wake. Years later, Mei becomes an artist, slowly committing memory to canvas. When the