Drunkard (Selected Short Stories by Xiong Zhaozheng)

Author: Xiong Zhaozheng
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is a collection of early short and medium-length stories by Xiong Zhaozheng, including 8 short stories and 5 medium-length stories. Most of them focus on rural life themes, reflecting the new landscape of rural areas during the reform and opening-up period, as well as the transformation of traditional rural values and thoughts in the new historical era. The book has a strong rural atmosphere, and it also reveals Xiong Zhaozheng's skilled mastery of language. Zheng Tiandong stood on the hilltop, the sluggish morning mist slowly flowing around him. The mountain birds, awakened by his shouts, chirped in a drowsy manner. The north wind turned into a visible milky-white stream, rushing away from the mountain pass. Under the frozen clouds, the forest shimmered in deep gray, occasionally emitting rustling sounds, perhaps from the movement of beasts. Zheng Tiandong suddenly felt lonely. He stared blankly at the valley below, thinking of the familiar collapsed bridge, and an unexpected desire for a woman stirred a storm within him. He almost despaired, pleading: "Yinfeng, Yinfeng, you have tormented me for twenty years. How much longer will you torment me?"