Paper necklace

Author: Cui Jingsheng
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Publish Date: 1997-10-01
Features: The fallen girl Wang Hao is imprisoned and unexpectedly released. Eight years of reform have made her fragile yet sincere, like a thin sheet of paper. But the commercial society that welcomes her is full of traps that can lead to downfall with a single misstep. Thus, she struggles, feels lost, and becomes outwardly cold yet inwardly passionate. By chance, Wang Hao becomes a temporary advertiser at a certain newspaper. The city opens its complex embrace to her: commercial competition, power-money transactions, judicial disputes, economic frauds. An international swindler falls in love with her! However, an accidental role as a newspaper reporter leads the protagonist and her story into a sacred context. The author's perspective is unique, attempting to excavate for the readers of the late 20th century a sense of ancient compassion and kindness, as well as witty and vivid urban humor.