Nine Snow

Author: Li Juan
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: I believe the land will also grow its own speakers, just as it grows wheat and corn. About Xinjiang, we may need to be patient and listen to the voices of these local writers. They are the inhabitants of this distant land, living in Xinjiang for decades, generations, and even hundreds of years, yet they have never dared to speak of it lightly. For their homeland, they hold an unspoken love and tenderness. The texts they write, which are not easily seen, reveal the most reliable truth of survival on this vast Western frontier, which has been looted countless times. The prose collection Eternal Sheep by the Kazakh young woman writer Yeshe is about the living world of Kazakhs, which is still largely unknown and unrecognized. The author of Nine Pieces of Snow, Li Juan, is only 21 years old and still follows her mother around the Altai Mountains, working as a seamstress and selling small goods. All of her articles were written secretly behind her mother's back. She doesn't want her mother to know that she is using literature to write about their lives for others, and she is even more reluctant for the people around her to know that she is writing.