At the western suburbs of the plateau

Author: Zhang Wei
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This is Zhang Wei's masterpiece of the soul! To ensure this heavy-weight long doesn't leave any regrets, Zhang Wei revised it eight times over a decade. It seems he truly considered this long his soul-stirring work. There are two Zhang Wei—one is the Shandong man who wrote a series of works like The Ancient Ship, Letters from a Distant Province, Can't Forget the Sunflower, and Fading Scenery, which have always been a focal point in literary circles for decades. The other Zhang Wei is the one we are unfamiliar with, talking to an interviewer over the phone amidst the clatter of stir-frying, discussing his newly completed novel You Are on the Plateau·West Suburbs. His language is detached from life, much like his novels. This book is the West Suburbs volume of the novel You Are on the Plateau. It depicts the struggles of a generation of intellectuals and their unwavering pursuit of ideals and careers, as well as their indomitable spirit.