Who among the people is like you

Author: Gu Tong
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This is China's first panoramic novel reflecting the survival state of free journalists. Or, it focuses on the daily behaviors of the SOHU tribe and the glory and dreams derived from them. However, the novel's main focus is not on them—they are a group of freelance journalists in Northwest Lanzhou, constantly moving behind news events, at the bottom of society and on the fringes of the city. They interact with drifters, village bullies, transsexuals, literary scoundrels, news brokers, urban thugs, and sex workers. From being kidnapped while interviewing the "three rural issues" to being disgraced while covering "sex work," from being extorted and sued after interviewing a transsexual to surviving the adventures of investigating the "public election bad person" incident, they repeatedly experience the weakness of their voices. It is precisely their journalistic experiences that form the hard skeleton and vibrant flesh of this novel. The content is not just about news events; it tells the stories behind the news and the human nature within the stories. Running through the entire narrative is a roller-coaster romance. Its appearance is because it affects the gathering and decline of the group of journalists. Due to suspicion, misunderstandings, and tolerance, a man falls in love with two women, and two women fall in love with one man. A woman's several attitudes toward love and several women's indulgence in a marriage become another focal point of the novel. If you read this as a love story, you will be teased by love. Calm and restrained words tell of ideals and actions; they tell of the breadth and richness of love; they tell of the warmth and inclusiveness of motherhood; they tell of the absence of despair and the essence of life. Have you ever felt a moment of confusion upon waking from a dream one morning: Who am I? Who is me? After reading this novel titled "Among People, Where Is You," you might discover: Among people, there is you, but among people, there is no me!