Within forty miles

Author: Wang Xiaoni
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This is a highly distinctive novel dedicated to readers by the renowned poet Wang Xiaoni. Within a radius of 40 kilometers, desperate intellectuals-in-exile engage in complaints, fights, and poisoning. This novel breaks away from the popular "unregretful youth" trope of intellectuals-in-exile stories. From an objective perspective as an outsider, the author employs a rare, cold, and stern style to portray the tragic and helpless collective image of the "" among intellectuals-in-exile in northern China, recreating the notorious era of those years. It is both a completely unconventional "action novel" that completelys physical and psychological descriptions of characters, and a poetic novel brimming with a broad, "all things have spirits" spirit. It is both a novel that pioneers the "post-intellectuals-in-exile" genre, and a "novel of the author" that embodies a unique novelistic philosophy.