Age of Awakening

Author: Charles Chouliel
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: A country boy who had never left his hometown suddenly becomes a student at a military academy, stepping into a completely unfamiliar world. While enduring hunger, cold, bullying from older students, and abuse from officers, he also discovers love. For the first time, he experiences the tremors of life that accompany the transition from childhood, filled with worries and confusion. The novel, from the perspective of a teenager, shows readers the various troubles, discoveries, confusions, awakenings, sorrows, rebellions, desires, and passions encountered as a boy bids farewell to his childhood. The work touches upon major issues of human society, such as life and death, love and emotion, benevolence and cruelty, with substantial and profound content.