Desert Sacrifice

Author: Xuedie
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: This is an impassioned, authentic, and profoundly moving depiction of the original life in rural western China. The story took the author Xuedie twenty years to write. The writer endured twelve years of painstaking effort and tears. Early readers were deeply moved by the life of the farmers in the Tengger Desert region of western China, shedding tears and reflecting on the struggles for life and death of their fellow countrymen. The family of the farmer Lao Shun performs a series of heart-wrenching scenes of life and death for survival, for the legacy of impoverished beliefs, for anemic love, and for the hopes under the heavy burden of poverty. The fantastical desert scenery, the unique customs of the west, the vivid and heavy reality of survival, and the intense emotional entanglements make the work as magical and profound as a primeval forest. Such a work is rare today, and its publication is sure to cause widespread resonance.