Falling reds confuse the return path

Author: Wang Xinli
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: A poignant and heart-wrenching love story; a mournful and tragic ballad of life. During the eight-year delay of the War of Resistance, on the land of 1940s Shanghai, Jiangnan small towns, and rural areas, women who lost their husbands and dreams in the war—such as Yu Mei and Yi Ren—traded their bodies and desires to fill the void in their lives and to protect their existing assets. They submitted to various men, but things did not go as planned, leaving them with nothing but emptiness and, ultimately, leading them to death. The fate of individuals and the passage of history intertwine in a series of tragic stories. The work blends traditional narrative with time-traveling and montage-style scene descriptions, using the perspective and mindset of contemporary women, telepathy, and humanistic care to recreate the long-forgotten historical truth, merging it seamlessly with real life. The characters in the novel are vividly portrayed, the scenes are rich and colorful, and the climaxes are relentless. After reading, it leaves one deeply reflective and lingering in memory. It is a long novel that combines literary, artistic, and readability qualities.