Beautifulest youth

Author: Liu Tong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Beautiful Boys is conducted through a dual-person narrative style. The two protagonists are named Xiao Xue and Yu Li. Xiao Xue is a child living in France who returns to China for middle school. Yu Li comes from an unhappy family where his father was killed by his mother and his mother went to prison. At the age of five, he was forced to separate from his biological brother and was raised by different relatives. The entire story tells the tale of two teenagers chasing happiness and dreams. Xiao Xue's humor and sunshine, Yu Li's silence and melancholy fill the story with a faint gray sunlight and a detached sense of blood. The two characters intersect in the middle of the novel, brought together by a play called Beautiful Boys, where they explore and understand what kind of boy is truly a boy and what kind of boy is truly beautiful. Though strangers to each other, they chase happiness and love in the same pursuit.