Life in the mountains

Author: Shen Congwen
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This book selects from the author's extensive writings the parts that are documentaries and reflections on life, presenting essays that showcase the profound footprints left by an ordinary yet great person on the stone-paved streets of Fenghuang, in the deep mountains of Xiangxi, and on the streets and alleys of the city. It displays the struggles and hardships, joys and sorrows, failures and successes of a writer and scholar who achieved their status with only a primary school education, during their brief yet long journey through life. It also portrays the awakening and rebellion, tempering and fragmentation of an ordinary soul.