Shards

Author: Su Tong
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Publish Date: 1998-01-01
Features: Xiangchun Street was originally a dim and neglected place where civilization struggled to reach. The Hua family was a peculiar one on this very ground: after the sudden deaths of her brother and sister-in-law, the young widow "Big Aunt" took on the roles of father and mother to five nephews. She treated the children as her own, caring for them devotedly, and showed exceptional tenderness, almost indulgence, to the only boy in the family, Du Hu. However, as the children grew older, unexpected things began to happen: the four girls were all beautiful like flowers, but each was also a troublemaker feared by the neighbors; Du Hu became a good-for-nothing street ruffian who had a "lover" of the opposite sex. As for all this, "Big Aunt" was clearly powerless. Yet, even greater misfortune was yet to come.