Lhasa Bar

Author: Ma Song
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: A strange and faint sense of melancholy and helplessness drifting in every inch of air in Lhasa, dazzling youth and travels. No, it's not the song of a docile sheep or the smooth years of worldly youth. It's rough, disdainful, arrogant, and defiant, with some confusion, some sadness, some tenderness, and some cynicism. What kind of novel is this? The first thing that comes to mind is J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, Norman Mailer's The Deer Hunter, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and films like Once Upon a Time in America and The Way to Heaven.