Love on a Desolate Mountain

Author: Wang Anyi
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: In Love on a Desolate Mountain, I attempted to create the relationship between men and women within the environment and background. My intention is that the relationship between men and women is not isolated; it occurs when time and people happen to meet at a convergence point, which is of the nature of an opportunity. Therefore, the story unfolds among four people, with the male and female protagonists each living their separate lives and meeting at a certain point. "We cannot be born at the same time, but we can die on the same day," she firmly says. They reach the foot of the desolate mountain and begin to climb. She helps him sit down, holding him like an infant, stroking his cheek with her face, and after a moment of tenderness, she takes out a small bottle from her white handbag, opens the seal, and feeds him. He drinks it obediently without asking what it is, and she takes out another bottle. She feeds him seven bottles in total, and then she starts drinking, drinking seven bottles herself. She takes out a bundle of rope from her bag, a rope twisted from colorful yarn. This is the relationship between men and women within the environment and background that the author of this book attempts to create. The intention is that the relationship between men and women is not isolated; it occurs when time and people happen to meet at a convergence point, which is of the nature of an opportunity. Therefore, the story unfolds among four people, with the male and female protagonists each living their separate lives and meeting at a certain point.