Town and City

Author: Liu Lido
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Liu Lido has a passion for literature, and her works such as Bird Village Stories, Blazing Youth, and The Train are products of this passion. More broadly, Liu Lido has a love for an artistic life and a slightly tragic heroism. — Wu Chenjun
A female high school student from a small provincial city drops out of school and comes to Beijing, relying on a local man, who in turn degrades into a pimp. What kind of life does an art-loving girl have to lead after her painter leaves? Thieves, professors, female students— their fates are connected in strange ways. And then there's that village called Bird Village— do you still proudly exist in some corner of Beijing, or have you vanished forever? The stories of the town and the city were once the subject of early Kerouac, but now, Liu Lido has written a masterpiece that captivates the city.
In these words, what blooms is not just the decay and death of youth, but also the cries and tremors of desire wandering. What's frightening is that she is vibrant and alluring, thick and full, or delicate and withered— mismatched lives meet in the text, and this is the only reason fate gives.