Contemporary Chinese Novel Masters' Collection: Su Tong Volume

Author: Su Tong
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: Now I recall my closed-off and lonely childhood life with both love and hatred. I remember a winter afternoon many years ago when I was jumping rope in my bulky cotton coat and pants on the streets outside. I saw some adults hurrying past the northern end of Suzhou. That must have been the late 1960s during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. If I were to describe the expressions or eyes of those passersby at the time, it would be fictional. I don’t remember, and I can’t depict external things. But I remember jumping rope in the cold winter afternoon. I was jumping—it was my childhood memory. How simple it is, yet how vivid.