Limerick

Author: Fan Yiping
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The acclaimed novelist Fan Yiping, following his previous works "The Barber" and "Searching for a Gun," presents a groundbreaking new masterpiece. Can the doctoral Chang Wenlian maintain his integrity and principles in the face of material desire, power hunger, and lust? Family love, romantic love, and unbreakable love intertwine with the politics of power and the battlefield of life and death. It's a simple story: a farmer's son who becomes a university professor but struggles for recognition, yet unexpectedly rises to the political arena through sheer chance. He remains incorruptible and upright, becoming a beloved official by the people. It's also a complex story: a middle-aged man suffering extreme sexual repression, separated from his wife, and a stunningly beautiful female student. The two are deeply attracted to each other, but due to the man's moral sense and loyalty to his wife, they do not engage in a romantic relationship. These two stories unfold simultaneously—the sexually repressed middle-aged man is none other than the incorruptible official in the political arena. It's as if they are two sides of the same coin. This book is the latest full-length novel by the renowned and rising writer Fan Yiping. Through the political journey of the doctoral Chang Wenlian, a descendant of a farming family, it highlights the integrity, principles, sense of responsibility, and morality that intellectuals possess and uphold in a society driven by desires, as well as in the face of the interests of the nation and its people.