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Author: A Wen
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book profoundly reveals the contradictions and conflicts between ancient and modern cultures, the collision and fragmentation between plateau and plain cultures, and the distinct differences between Chinese and foreign cultures through the experiences and fates of ordinary people. It explains that human's primal impulses and pure emotions remain unchanged despite historical and social changes, and that the human essence of pursuing truth, goodness, beauty, and love is eternal. The book discusses sexuality but without indecency; it explores emotions but without vulgarity. The author sets a tone of depth and weight typical of traditional literature, supported by the open forms and structures of avant-garde literature. With a vivid and exhilarating narrative language and touching storylines, it captivates readers, making them reluctant to put it down. The story follows a woman named Cao Nao, who has been wounded by two marriages, who accidentally witnesses a naked man bathing and becomes obsessed, unable to control herself. Unable to resist her desires, she gets the man drunk and indulges in her passions. Later, the man undergoes surgery due to severe psychological trauma and becomes a normal person, winning the love of a female fashion designer for his acts of bravery. Meanwhile, Fei Ge, a "cultural person" who has long admired Cao Nao, is deeply moved upon her deathbed confession and spends the night with her corpse, achieving spiritual redemption and a sense of soulful. A young couple from Europe witnesses the customs and local culture of Kunyang City, utterly astonished by the people's completely different cultural psychology and contrasting expressions regarding sexuality, love, and emotion.