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Author: A Wen
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book profoundly reveals the contradictions and conflicts between ancient and modern cultures, the collision and fragmentation between plateau and plain cultures, and the distinct differences between Chinese and foreign cultures through the experiences and fates of ordinary people. It elucidates that human primal impulses and pure emotions remain unchanged despite historical and social transformations, and that the human essence of pursuing truth, goodness, beauty, and love is eternal. The book discusses sexuality but without indecency; it explores emotions but avoids vulgarity. The author sets a tone of depth and weight typical of traditional literature, supported by the open forms and structures of avant-garde literature. With a vivid and engaging narrative language and heart-wrenching storylines, the book is compelling and hard to put down. It tells the story of a woman named Cao Nao, who has been wounded by two marriages, who accidentally witnesses a naked man bathing and becomes consumed with desire, unable to control herself. Eventually, unable to resist her lust, she gets the man drunk and indulges in her desires. Later, the man, subjected to intense psychological trauma, undergoes surgery and becomes a normal person, winning the love of a female fashion designer for his acts of bravery. Meanwhile, Fei Ge, a "cultural person" who has long admired Cao Nao, is deeply moved by her confession at the end of her life and spends the night with her corpse, achieving spiritual redemption and a sense of soulful. A young couple from Europe witnesses the customs and local culture of Kunyang City and is astonished by the completely different cultural psychology and contrasting expressions of sexuality, love, and emotion among the people there.