Sing sad songs

Author: Wu Ruoquan
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Do you still keep the gifts from your ex-lover? A ring, a doll, or a leaf that represents your feelings, lingering with a faint bitterness yet still carrying the taste of happiness. Each character, each emotional experience. Love, they once lost but ultimately found it. The novel depicts the struggles and growth of urbanites navigating love, where love may wither and dreams may shatter, but we only truly understand the perfection of happiness after losing what we love and experiencing imperfections. The language is concise, the emotions sincere. Reading it is like listening to a symphony of joy and sorrow, with a myriad of emotions swirling in your heart. The deepest longing is to still think of the other person even while hugging them; the greatest distance is to feel strange to each other even when you are intimate. In the collection Singing and Weeping, the seven stories of urbanites' growth happen to feature love tokens in each relationship. The candle in Love Abandoned, the birdcage in Bird in a Cage, the coaster and leaf in Singing and Weeping, the Christmas tree in Love of the Cuckoo, Yes, I Do., the Ding doll in Flowing Years, the phone in Old Love, and the postcard in Paris Postcard. Perhaps in the end, their relationships may not all achieve the happy ending of "lovers finally coming together," and some may even end tragically, but none of this diminishes their longing and pursuit of true love.