Love in Sad Days II

Author: Wen Quanjie
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: A sequel to "Love in Sad Days," an alternative youth story of a troubled teenager, the most profound and distinctive rural youth literature of 2005. About youth, about sorrow, about cruelty, about love, about death, about absurdity. When you're tired of urban youth literature, please take a look at this book. It's a very individualistic, long novel about the alternative youth of a rural teenager. A naive child grows into a rebellious, bloodthirsty young man. The author uses the sorrowful gaze of a teenager to illustrate the reality and sorrow of the adult world. The remote yet alluring Lotus Fragrance Village in the novel is distant yet seems close at hand. The men and women of Lotus Fragrance Village, their customs, their worldly ways, their ideas and thoughts—all are deconstructed and rebuilt through the sorrowful gaze of the young protagonist. The love of Grandma Yu Zhu and Grandpa that defies human norms, the bloodshed between teenagers, Tao Ge's emotional entanglements with several girls, and his ambiguous brotherly bond with "me," the conflict between persistent pursuit and helpless loss, the repeated deaths—cruel, tender, absurd, normal, accidental, inevitable—all are filled with the colors of sorrow, grief, and grandeur.