Wild windmill

Author: Cao Wenxuan
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: A vast wilderness, with no trees, no villages, no pedestrians, only a solitary and proud windmill. Now, the owner of this windmill is Er Ba Yezi and his father. This book collects 15 short stories, which are carefully selected by the author from over a hundred short stories he has written over the years. They are all highly acclaimed masterpieces: a pure and innocent yet subtly complex emotional bond between a rural boy and a girl from Suzhou City, a boy who longs for happiness and falls into boundless guilt for depriving others of it, and several children who enter a wooden house just as an avalanche occurs. The works are fresh, pure, and elegant in style, with exquisite and wise stories, and a meticulous and in-depth exploration of the hearts of young men and women. The works included in this book have won numerous awards, including the National Excellent Children's Literature Award from the Chinese Writers' Association, the Ice Heart Children's Literature New Work Award, the First Prize of the Cross-Strait Young Adult Novel Competition, the Top Ten Read Books Award of the China Times in 1994, the Best Short Story Award of the "Good Books for Everyone" in Taiwan, and the Beijing Excellent Literary Works Award, among others. Among them, "Blue Flower" and "Sweet Orange Tree" are particularly acclaimed as outstanding masterpieces.