Very confusing

Author: Guo Xiaodong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This novel is another masterpiece by the renowned writer Guo Xiaodong, following the "China Youth Tribe" trilogy and the highly acclaimed "Very Mysterious." With elegant, hesitant, and lingering narration, it tells readers a completely new story and explores an extraordinary realm of human nature. It always delivers a fresh, delicate, and haunting experience, while also offering an unexpected ending. The university is supposed to be a pure sanctuary, dedicated to teaching, enlightening, and solving doubts, but in this novel, it reveals its deeply corrupt and vile side. Centered around the pursuit of a manuscript titled "History of Modern Chinese Literature," the story unfolds the dark of the university, the spontaneous choir, and the urban symphony of the triad, the black society, and the world of erotic pleasure. A familiar yet strange otherworldly tale. The hypocritical university president, the self-willed free-thinking intellectual, the urban woman who despises hesitation or avant-garde individuality, the enigmatic and cunning "big sister," the Baiyun Mountain singer still immersed in the passionate era, a group of great and small figures who inspire us to think in reverse.