Butterfly chaos

Author: Er Ya
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: The Butterfly Chaos has been called the Chinese version of Norwegian Wood; some find the shadow of The Catcher in the Rye within it; others say how can youth be written so wildly, so eroticly; how can university life be so restless, so messy. But the words follow the path, the chapters align with the times, everything is bestowed by the era. The novel is a flower that blooms outside the era's main stem. The story takes place at a university in the north. Many people at the university originally had relatively peaceful, unimaginative, even boring lives. But one day, their lives are completely disrupted: a girl named Ji Yao appears before them, bringing enough temptation, enough confusion; they imagine her body, spy on her life, they curse her, love her, filled with extreme physical and spiritual desire for her—who can truly get close to and understand the real Ji Yao? What does the depth of her hidden life really contain? All of this is left to the story and the readers to discover. A novel about temptation and growth, it contains the joys and sorrows, hopes and anxieties, nudity and excitement of youth; it can be said that it is a reading experience that brings enough emotional impact and pleasure.