I am not famous yet, you are not married yet

Author: Ding Qinzheng
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: Like the sweet breath of mother-of-pearl at the bottom of the sea, like the secret rendezvous between flowers and bees in broad daylight—it proves this is no stuffy local specialty. It contains jokes as bizarre as sea monsters, and it’s a novel capable of igniting a fire in our overindulgent aesthetic views, built upon the dazzling allure of red-dressed, slender-waisted women. I, the young and unmarried, am only because they are all figures from dreams. A university life like a dream, a youth as dreamlike—both real and illusory, familiar yet vibrant, the active university students on paper seem to transport me back to my university days. The person I loved left as swiftly as the story of flowers blooming and fading, her youth made of water, flowing mercilessly in the restless passage of time. A campus of heartbreak and drunkenness. A magnificent yet desperate battlefield where a naive youth buried the names of his sorrows.