Butterfly in the wind

Author: Li Qingsong
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: A novel picture book about two passionate female poets, a utopia witness of an era. Youth has swaggered away, and it's time to recall. A novel written for those born in the 1960s; a novel depicting the innocent 1980s. Passion and recklessness, ideals and disillusionment, individual liberation and spiritual torment clash violently. From then on, we gain a deeper understanding and respect for desire and freedom, and find ample justification and basis for the path we have walked. A literary young woman named Mao Mao falls in love with the famous writer Zhao Yifu. The middle-aged Zhao Yifu, despite being unable to fulfill his desires, demands the passion and dignity he cannot reclaim from her, and attempts to rule her with his fame and ideas. To break free from that heavy shadow, she embarks on a difficult journey of love—close yet distant Samba, (Xinning warming each other), but she receives only one wound after another. By the time she can finally lick her own wounds, love has already flown away with the passage of time.
It was an era of (mysterious poetry), where they danced in groups, organized cultural sofas, and performed avant-garde art. Some suffered from a youth delusion syndrome, while others paid the ultimate price for youthful impulses with their lives. When they reached middle age and reunited at Beidaihe, looking back at their youth, they realized that the next generation had accomplished in an instant what they had spent a lifetime to achieve. Thus, their recollection of youth begins with a naked swim in the 1980s.