Case Bar

Author: Wang Xinli
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The novel has a fashionable theme, innovative artistic conception, and strong readability and literary quality. It is a profound and thought-provoking story that leaves a lasting impression. This is a narrative novel that engages in a dialogue between the spiritual and the physical, as well as between social history and the self-soul. It is filled with a certain ambiance, and the famous Keys Bar, which is being demolished due to urban renewal, serves as the backdrop. The novel depicts the life experiences and personal secrets of characters such as the alcoholic owner Jianming, the owner's wife Yang Yueqin, the shareholder Tian Section Chief, the retired chief engineer Mr. He, the high-end prostitute businessman Du Wei, the marginal writer, and the bar waitress Ranwa. These fragments of memories and soul-searching, immersed in the immediate pleasures of alcohol, coffee, candlelight, and jazz, offer a glimpse into the real lives and emotional experiences of ordinary intellectuals during China's social transition from the 1980s to the early 21st century, as well as their distorted moral perspectives.