Red tiles, black tiles

Author: Cao Wenxuan
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This is a young adult novel created by Cao Wenxuan from his 400,000-word masterpiece Red Tiles, which was awarded the National Book Award and Beijing Literature and Art Award. From the perspective of its content and life, it can be considered a sequel to Grass House. The novel is set in Youma Village and poetically describes the pure and hearty rural life from the perspective of a middle school student, delicately recording the growth journey of young boys and girls as they gradually understand life. The plot of the book rises and falls dramatically, moving and touching the heart, with care and affection flowing between the lines. The book has won the National Book Award and Beijing Literature and Art Award, as well as the Taiwan "Readers' Choice" Best Children's Book Award. It was selected by the South Korean Central Daily News as one of the "Top Ten Books of 2001," and Chapter 9 was included in the Korean high school Chinese language textbook.