Dove

Author: An Ziqing
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Grand Prize Runner-up of the 3rd Sina Original Literature Competition, a love story filled with humiliation and tears of a female student studying in Japan. Radio host Min Xiaoyan, with fantasies of Japan, flies alone on a plane to the dreamland. Upon arriving in the land she longed for, Xiaoyan discovers many unbearable pains. To survive, she has to work at a restaurant and later falls in love with the dissolute youth Yue Tong. Her friend Qiao Na is supported by an elderly Japanese man, the Taiwanese girl Selina is defiled by a group of Japanese men, Li Tong is humiliated by Zhong Shaoer's father, and her lover Wang Zhongshi, who is 20 years older, is facing imprisonment in China. Xiaoyan finally realizes that Tokyo is not the paradise she imagined, and she grows from a romantic girl into a woman of the real world. Love, dignity, desire, all kinds of helplessness, betrayal, and memories intertwine over Tokyo, weaving a humiliating and tearful love story. And what will this legendary paradise city bring to these people? This novel will take you into the real island nation of Japan, into a world of glamour and shadows.