Wild Windmill---Cao Wenxuan's Pure Beauty Novel Series

Author: Cao Wenxuan
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book collects 15 short stories, which are carefully selected by the author from over 100 short stories he has written over the years. They are all renowned and acclaimed masterpieces: a pure and slightly subtle emotional bond between a rural boy and a girl from Suzhou City, a boy who longs for happiness and falls into endless guilt for believing he deprived others of it, and a few children who enter a wooden house just as an avalanche occurs. The stories are fresh, pure, and elegant, with exquisite and wise narratives, delving deeply into the hearts of young men and women. The works included in this book have won numerous awards, such as the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award from the Chinese Writers' Association, the Bingxin Children's Literature New Work Award, the First Prize of the Cross-Strait Young Adult Novel Competition, the 1994 Top Ten Reading Books Award from Taiwan's China Times, the Best Short Story Award from the "Good Books Everyone Reads" in Taiwan, and the Beijing Outstanding Literary Works Award. Among them, "Blue Flower" and "Sweet Orange Tree" are particularly celebrated masterpieces.