All the way to the saxophone flowers

Author: Dang Yimin
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This is a story about several women traveling to Tibet. A young female journalist wants to marry the boyfriend of her sister who is far away, but he doesn't know. A beautiful female graduate student from the art department, after returning from a performance tour to Tibet with a university troupe, has her original life completely disrupted and ends her cohabitation with her lover. A rural military wife who raises her daughter by working, searches for her missing husband for ten years and finally finds only two of his graves. A city white-collar military wife suspects her husband of having an affair and furiously goes to Tibet to divorce him, only to discover a secret that leaves her stunned and tearful. The women experience landslides, avalanches, and mudslides. They witness the hardships of life and the ease of death, seeing an unpolluted green community. The hustle and bustle of the mainland clash sharply with the tranquility of the plateau, the collision of urban civilization with the culture of the snow-covered land. The interweaving of personal emotions and sacred duties, family warmth and national interests, unfold a series of moving stories of Tibetan soldiers that are little-known to the public.