You are on the plateau. West Suburban.

Author: Zhang Wei
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This is Zhang Wei's soul-stirring masterpiece! To ensure this weighty long does not leave any regrets, Zhang Wei revised it eight times over a decade. It seems he truly considered this long his soul-stirring work. There are two Zhang Wei—one is the Shandong man who wrote works like "The Ancient Ship," "Letters from a Distant Province," "Can We Forget Schizanthus," and "The Fading Scenery," which have always been focal points in literary circles for decades. The other Zhang Wei is one unknown to us, talking to an interviewer over the phone amidst the clatter of stir-frying, discussing his newly completed work "You Are on the Plateau·West Suburb." His language is detached from life, just like his novels. I thought of some wandering women I encountered in the plains and mountains, who were older, some dragging a child covered in snot, while others held a chicken in their arms. Could they also be like Jia You, all carrying back a difficult past? Wandering, traveling through the mountains and plains, scattering all secrets into the wilderness. I comforted Jia You, telling her: "You must go back to shield your mother, the old lady is eagerly waiting for you!" Go back, go back!