Goats Don't Eat Paradise Grass (Revised Edition)

Author: Cao Wenxuan
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This is a vivid, easy-to-read, yet thought-provoking young adult novel. To this day, Mingzi still feels completely unfamiliar with the city. He finds the world he lives in to be distant, strange, and forever unreachable. The city, to him, is inexplicable, elusive, and out of reach. A group of hungry sheep, faced with a noble and tempting paradise grass, refuse to lower their heads. Days later, they die heroically one by one. Forced by life, the protagonist of the novel must leave his homeland and follow his master into the outside world to make a living. Yet, they seem to never truly enter that world. Through the hardships of life and the coldness of society, the novel portrays the protagonist's emotional struggles and their actions that reflect both their strengths and weaknesses. However, the entire work resonates with an uplifting melody that praises morality and justice, playing a resounding symphony of the triumph of human character. The novel is richly written, with detailed descriptions and lifelike, three-dimensional characters. Especially notable is how the work skillfully blends life, existence, fate, philosophy, symbolism, and refined aesthetic tastes, making it both profound and artistically captivating.