Small Town Love (Color Illustration Treasured Edition)

Author: Wang Anyi
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Two young men, who have not yet created a resume for their lives, meet with almost naked entities of their existence, their lives, and their concepts. What kind of relationship can they have between them? Sex becomes prominent, emerging as the only form and content of their relationship. They seem to have lost their footing, stepping into a trap disguised with red flowers and green grass, inevitably falling into the abyss; they seem to have slipped into a rushing stream, then spiraled into a fierce whirlpool, helpless and at the mercy of the currents. They believe they are the unluckiest people in the world, almost wanting to die, yet unable to make the decision. Strangely, they still cling to something, something painful and dirty – that very tainted pleasure. As if their destined calamity has not yet ended, they cannot escape. This book depicts the distorted sexual relationship between two young men in the oppression of ignorance. It does not condemn the male protagonist from a moral perspective but rather portrays the absence of male subjectivity from a psychological perspective.