Is youth meant to be wasted?

Author: Tian Yuan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: When I dropped the last stroke, I stood up and looked at the distant mist, as if I saw my gradually fading and forgotten youth. Writing so many words is also a memorial for those youthful years filled with tears. Since Han Han's Triple Door, youth novels have produced countless works, with being the overflow of identical emotional outpouring, while what is scarce is the mastery of novel structure and critique of reality. To the generation before the 80s, these words of seventeen or eighteen years old are no different from their own doodles back then, not only evoking nostalgia for the wasted youth. Now, finally, the seventeen-year-old Tian Yuan has made this awkwardness a part of history with his novel Is Youth Meant to Be Wasted.