Strange World: A Diary of a Young Girl: A Diary of a Young Girl

Author: Wang Xinli
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This is a diary-style novel. It authentically records the world through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old girl, showcasing the material life of urban lower classes in late 20th-century China. A pure-hearted girl named Xiaowan uses her bewildered eyes, sorrowful heart, and youthful body to experience the complex world that is both familiar and strange, filled with family bonds yet cruel. She helplessly walks the path fate has given her. With sincere and candid words, she records her own physical and emotional experiences, documenting the lives of people on the small street behind the building and the days and nights there. This records the meticulous emotional experiences and physical sensations of a seventeen-year-old girl. In her eyes, the world is too vast and too complicated. Even close people are strangers.