Vertical dance

Author: Wei Gaoxiang
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: A middle-aged man meets a young girl in a climbing gym, and the age gap does not become a barrier to love, but it affects the realization of marriage, as their ideas and understanding of marriage are always divergent. The novel portrays the calm yet rich inner world of a middle-aged person in a melancholic and elegant language. Faced with the hustle and bustle of a consumer society, he can remain aloof; yet when entangled in marginal emotions, he cannot help but be trapped. Viewing his literary career as the meaning of his existence, he spends his days idly without a single word to publish. Although the protagonist's envisioned "visit-based marriage" is inevitably controversial, it holds imaginative and suggestive value.