Visited the West: Selected Short Stories of Ge Wuju: Selected Short Stories of Ge Wuju

Author: Ge Wujue
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Here are numerous western stories, each as poetic and picturesque as a poem and a painting. Poetic, they are songs of the soul, songs of life, and songs of the era; picturesque, they depict moonlit deserts, shimmering rivers, and sunsets over grasslands. These stories have been included in various domestic and international anthologies, translated into English, French, Japanese, and Russian, and have been adapted for the screen, flying across the Great Wall and the Yangtze River, from the northwest to the northeast, from Europe to America and Japan.
Ge Wujue's novels paint for readers the vast and boundless plateaus and deserts of the northwest, the impoverished villages in the Lüpan Mountains, the sparsely populated sand control stations in the Tengger Desert, the cities and factories along the Yellow River, and the diverse people who live and fight there. The author employs multiple styles—writing farmers like farmers, workers like workers, intellectuals and officials like intellectuals and officials. Each character and scene, under his pen, is vividly depicted in rich colors, filled with poetic charm, and radiates a compassionate heart for humanity, as well as praise for truth, goodness, and beauty, and a scathing critique of falsehood, evil, and ugliness. This book is highly worth careful reading.