Desolate Youth (Volume 1 & 2)

Author: Bai Miao
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Publish Date: 1997-12-01
Features: This is not a fictional novel, but the real stories of real people in life. The dramatic conflicts of life destinies will make the imagination of a novelist seem pale, unreal, and overshadowed. The roaring movement of sending urban youth to the countryside, the ancient and wild Loess Plateau, twisted and carved the youth of several Beijing female Red Guards—two innocent and beautiful female Red Guards, driven by passion, took turns to be the wife of a young farmer with a marital history who was imprisoned, shocked the world with extreme measures in critical moments for love; the waves of the Yellow River stirred a strange fate between a female Red Guard and a Shaanxi Plateau man, so the kind-hearted girl entered the farmer's house, creating an unbelievable love legend in a dilapidated cave with four children; the singing and dancing female Red Guard, repeatedly stimulated by disasters, became numb and dazed, and local cadres forcibly married her to a disabled farmer to preserve her life, staging a tragedy that seemed like a crime but was also a crime, yet not a crime but also not a crime; her chaste youth was insulted and she was pointed at by the masses, seeking true love, she was paraded in the streets and imprisoned, having to fight for human dignity with double the effort, resilience, and even to the point of death; the illegitimate daughter of a pair of Red Guards, to escape a terrible marriage, fled the wilderness to the city to find her birth parents, thus unfolding a series of heart-wrenching stories. This book focuses on showcasing the love and fate of several Beijing female Red Guards stranded in the heart of the Loess Plateau after the tide of sending urban youth to the countryside receded. These little-known Red Guard lives possess a tragic and cruel impact, guiding readers' thoughts across the barriers of time and space to examine history, reflect on life, and savor the meaning of life.