Alluring, no one knows to tell

Author: Xia Shang
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Xia Shang is an ambitious writer who, with ambitious words, provides a panoramic spatial overview of the desires and behaviors of ambition in the human world. He skillfully pierces and sharply cuts through life and even death. The real lives of characters such as the baby girl with a tail, Orphan Lai Fu, abandoned child Soy Sauce Spots, vagabond Si Di of the two brothers, prostitute Guo Xiang, brute Wang Laopi, migrant worker A Dan, and rogue Liu Da Ya are objectively and authentically depicted in this book, thus bringing about a realistic critique and revelation of the "luxurious formation" of the "" (). The brilliance of language, the richness of vocabulary, the poetic quality of language perception, the freshness of language style, and the depth of meaning give this novel a soaring posture. It gazes down upon the forgotten lower-class masses at the edge of the city, revealing their destitute spiritual world, telling us how to self-reproach and how to care.