Love on a Desolate Mountain

Author: Wang Anyi
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is one of the "Famous Works by Famous Novelists in the New Period." The male and female protagonists each have their own family and life stories. At a certain point in time and space, they meet, and this encounter changes their destinies dramatically. Wang Anyi seems to emphasize that this intersection is inevitable for altering the fates of the related characters, while the temporal and spatial factors involved have a certain randomness. They cannot meet without falling in love, nor can they make the encounter happen before their marriage. Therefore, they can only resolve the dilemma of their two choices through tragic demise. Here, both "death" and "fate" carry a sense of the inescapable destiny of life. Words like "omen," "fate," and "death" narrate a sense of inevitability amidst chance, an objective fate.