Rising Tide Series - Flat on Both Sides

Author: Ma Yuan
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: The accumulation of writing over time becomes the accumulation of history in a blink. In the new era, it becomes the experience of the past century. For literature, the refinement of time surpasses all the conflicting opinions. We have compiled these masterpieces into a book not only because they have been tested by time, but also because we hope they continue to be in the sight of time and readers. We have this confidence in literature. We have even more confidence in life. This is a long novel with autobiographical elements by the writer Ma Yuan. The story depicts the lives of a group of intellectuals who were in hardship and hunger in the early 1970s. To fill their bellies, they stole chickens, went hunting, and feigned illness. Four girls: Bottles, Xiaoxiu, Jiangmei, and Xiaoli, their beautiful youth and lives were forever buried in this land. Compared to the works of other intellectual writers, Ma Yuan does not showcase and pain in this work, nor does he imbue it with idealized poetic brilliance. His novel is filled with a strange atmosphere and a sense of destiny. The real, perhaps, is even more charming and can stand the test of time.