Seductive sin

Author: Hainan
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Hainan's innate poetic nature gives her novels a unique flavor. The entanglement and confusion of emotions, the enigmatic and ambiguous beauty of femininity and the evil of human nature unfold a story of a brothel in western Yunnan in the early 20th century. This is a confession of a woman's body in the old era, where plots, jealousy, and war are enriched by Hainan's poetic brushwork. A young girl named Wuzhen from a village in western Yunnan, freshly graduated from a girls' high school, longs for the splendid world outside. Encouraged by her cousin, she runs away with two other women from the same village but is unfortunately sold into a brothel. The young girl Wuzhen begins her extraordinary life in the post town where muleteers and merchants gather. The entanglement and confusion of emotions, the enigmatic and ambiguous beauty of femininity and the evil of human nature unfold a story of a brothel in western Yunnan in the early 20th century. This is a confession of a woman's body in the old era, where plots, jealousy, and war are enriched by Hainan's poetic brushwork.