City

Author: Sanmao
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: Sanmao's "Love at the Fall of the City" takes place in East Berlin, crossing time to share a segment of her life that is both beautiful and tragic, as if a memory from a past life. Although "The Fall of the City" adopts a direct narrative style in prose form, it is filled with cautious warnings and conveys a sense of encouragement. It also uses straightforward techniques, leaving the reader with no doubt but to believe. "At that time, I was a beautiful woman. I knew that if I smiled, it would be as if spring flowers bloomed, capable of moving anyone—regardless of who they were." Such words truly have the power to create the effect of "a smile that can make a city fall, and another that can make a kingdom."