Love in Brocade Valley

Author: Wang Anyi
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: I want to tell a story, a woman's story. The wind of early autumn is cool, the sun is clear, and the heart is calm, allowing one to peacefully contemplate this story. I think the story also begins after a rainy autumn day. Behind the two locked doors, the leaves on the balcony gradually dry, curling up and detaching from the varnished cement floor, gently skittering, slipping out through the gaps between the railings. The experiment in "Love in the Jade Valley" is more challenging, as it deals with the relationship between men and women within a single person, which is an abstract relationship. It relies entirely on one's own reason and emotion to nourish it. "Love in the Jade Valley" portrays a wise woman in sexual love, who feels bored in her increasingly monotonous marriage and finds renewal in an extramarital affair. At the same time, she is not captured by passion, adheres to the rules of the game, and still considers marriage as her foundation for life.