Eastern Shadow

Author: Wang Huozhu
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This is a love story set in the year 2003 that celebrates national spirit, yearns for peace, and praises humanity and humanism. It can be described as a beautiful yet abrupt, poignant, and heart-wrenching tale of love. Of course, it is not written solely for the sake of love. It contains more positive spiritual values and explorations of the future. The author believes that life should not be overly somber, so a touch of idealism and hope is necessary. Please don’t laugh at an old man writing about the love of the young—old people have experienced much and also have the right to write about love. The love depicted by the author is pure, sincere, thought-provoking, capable of stirring ripples in readers’ thoughts, shaking their souls, and prompting political reflection. In a novel of 300,000 words, the author cannot reveal all their inner thoughts, but much of what they wish to say and many of their thoughts are laid bare in this book. While it is readable, it inevitably leaves readers with something to ponder. It is not a quick, purely recreational read.