Zixiao Liang - Exquisite Short Stories by Contemporary Chinese Masters

Author: Nie Xinsen
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
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Essays are also known as beautiful prose, while the ci in poetry is a concise and exquisite spirit within beautiful prose. Novels may portray life, and the short story is the crystallization of the refinement and condensation of life's fleeting moments. This book collects dozens of short stories by contemporary author Nie Xinsen, extracting the essence of contemporary short stories, making it worth reading. The short story works collected by Nie Xinsen in Purple Silk Curtain focus on the small city of Xiangtan. His short stories are deeply rooted in culture, and when reading them, you can feel the essence of Chu culture permeating through the scholars, skilled craftsmen, every street, every building, and even every blade of grass and leaf there. It allows us to clearly taste the life and rhythm of the people in that region.