Bending summer

Author: Wei Wei
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The novel tells the story of a man and a woman. On the day they met, the boy was sixteen, and the woman was thirty-two—so what? You guess. Perhaps they fell in love, loved for two years, one ran away, and the other searched for them; or perhaps, this was an unavoidable love, destined to happen, no matter how much they tried to escape it. On the contrary, objectively speaking, there is nothing in this world that cannot be avoided. Each of us, including the two protagonists in this story, sometimes tends to believe, sometimes unwisely, that a meeting between a man and a woman is inevitable, as if it were a certain fate in life. In reality, this is wrong. This thought is quite self-destructive. "Summer at the Turning Point," with its aptly twisted bend, seems to have deviated from the normal course of people's lives, but the distance of alienation is not far. In a specific time and space, my reading immersed me, breathing freely in that real summer. It is about a teenage boy and a middle-aged woman. The boy is handsome but simple and naive; the woman is beautiful and sensual, yet hiding her shrewdness and complexity. They met in the summer of 1986 and staged a love story filled with sorrow and melancholy. In that turning point of summer, the teenage boy was naive and shy about romance, yet he began to try a brand-new life as a stay-at-home husband. He needed to use his still slender shoulders to support the shaky world of the two of them. The boy loved the woman who was three years older than him, even though she was married. The married woman, in turn, had no legitimate occupation. The woman without a legitimate occupation lived by deception and fraud. But none of these things could stop the boy from his longing for love and his pursuit of this woman.