Top 50 Chinese Novels - Wolf's Den

Author: Liu Heng
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Publish Date: 2001-10-01
Features: The purpose of the Top 50 Chinese Novels is clearly to review the achievements of contemporary Chinese fiction over the past two decades, to provide a summary of the literary history that has already been made, and to offer a reference for literary history writing and other selections. It aims to provide readers who love literature with a relatively complete and comprehensive reading material that can give a general overview of contemporary fiction creation over the past two decades.
Content: It was already the season of deep winter, yet no snow had fallen. The mountain was dry and devoid of any moisture. Withered reeds lay in patches, on the mountain ground, as the lazy wind swirled above them. The small stream at the bottom of the valley had frozen into a winding white ribbon, covered with a thin layer of pale yellow dust, like a large stream of pus trickling out from the cracked mountain belly. Shi Tianhui walked out of the long-abandoned wolf den along the mountain road and stopped by the stream. The ice surface, a few feet wide, made the old man hesitate. He knew he was old and that a fall could easily leave him unable to get up again. He couldn’t underestimate it. Using his six-rod staff, he prodded the ice here and there, his eyes staring at the dazzling, painful white light before him.