David's evil

Author: Recommended to see a doctor
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This novel is the new work of Recommended to See a Doctor (also known as Pinyin 04), originally titled "Turbulent Test of Love" online. Unprecedentedly recommended by Sina, Sohu, Tianya, and Maopu, it was translated by hundreds of websites. A completely fitting novel to Wang Xiaobo's standard of being "good to read." It was selected as Sina's annual Best Online Novel and the author was awarded the title of Sina's Top 10 Online Writers. The novel presents a slice of life and emotions of the 1970s from the perspective of a foreign student, offering a profound critique and reflection on the superficial world. Its meaning echoes that of "David's Sin" in the Bible. The book tells the story of a 29-year-old Chinese man, Chen Bei, through a very emotional experience. While in the U.S., Chen Bei meets a female student, Xiao Ran, who already has a boyfriend. They engage in a love story driven by desire. After Xiao Ran plays pretend to be real, she confesses to her boyfriend and family in China and pressures Chen Bei to take a leave of absence to return and face his family. Reluctantly, Chen Bei returns to China, and the main plot focuses on his 30 days there. During this time, he has the chance to re-examine his long-lost family and childhood friends, while also uncontrollably falling in love with the wife of his older brother's friend. New love and old love intertwined—where will he go? The novel takes the intense emotional outpouring of these 30 days as its starting point, expressing the author's firsthand, heartfelt emotions as a Chinese student facing changes in geography, the passage of time, shifts in tradition, and the betrayal of love and desire. The near-desperate tension between ideal and reality runs throughout the entire story. From the perspective of a foreign student, it presents a slice of life and emotions of the 1970s.