Pan Jinlian fled from Ximen Town

Author: Yan Lianke
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Jinlian falls in love with the second brother and, out of desperation, marries the eldest brother. She sacrifices her own body to benefit the entire village, but still cannot escape being despised, ignored, and mocked. With a compassionate and sincere literary style, the author narrates the warmth and coldness of the human world and the harshness of society, leaving readers with profound reflections. The Golden Lotus has branded Pan Jinlian as an eternal harlot, and to this day, her name remains untarnished. The writer Yan Lianke ingeniously reinserts the protagonist of a classical masterpiece into the whirlpool of modern life, weaving a story of Jinlian's life filled with bitterness, sorrow, and hardship. Jinlian falls in love with the second brother and, out of desperation, marries the eldest brother. She sacrifices her own body to benefit the entire village, but still cannot escape being despised, ignored, and mocked. With a compassionate and sincere literary style, the author narrates the warmth and coldness of the human world and the harshness of society, leaving readers with profound reflections.