Back on track

Author: Lu Ming
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Life cannot be self-chosen. Death is inevitable. Love is irresistible. Desire is beyond control. A person's life itself is a story, and many of its plot points are beyond the control of reason. Rather than saying we choose a person or something, it is more accurate to say that because we are a certain kind of person or can only be a certain kind of person, we fall in love with a person or something. We are chosen and destined, and only then can we make choices. Our own choices are also always under the scrutiny of others. After Chinese painter Mi Shan settled in New York, American girl Anna and Chinese girl Ya Wen fell in love with him simultaneously. Due to this twisted love, they formed a "three-person family." The homosexual inclinations of Li Zhibai, a biology professor at Rockefeller University, flared up upon meeting the American youth Land, and the shocking love between the two men moved heaven and earth. Li Zhibai passed away from AIDS, and until the very end of his life, his wife Tian Mai only discovered that her husband had long been a hidden homosexual. What terrified her most was whether she had contracted the virus. This novel integrates serious themes such as AIDS, sexual psychology, and cultural differences between China and the United States, making it an highly exploratory and profound work.