Selected Works of Xiong Zhaozheng. Drunkard: Selected Short Stories and Novellas by Xiong Zhaozheng

Author: Xiong Zhaozheng
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is a collection of Xiong Zhaozheng's early short and medium-length stories, 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 and 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 skillful mastery of language. Zheng Tiandong stood on the hilltop, the sluggish morning mist slowly flowing around him, the awakening sparrows nearby emitting drowsy chirps. The north wind turned into a visible milky white stream, gushing away from the mountain pass. Under the frozen clouds, the forest shimmered in a deep gray, occasionally, perhaps the movement of an animal. Zheng Tiandong suddenly felt lonely, gazing blankly at the valley below, thinking of the familiar collapsed bridge. An unexpected longing for a woman stirred within him, unleashing a storm of emotions. He almost despaired, pleading, "Yinfeng, Yinfeng, you have tormented me for twenty years, and how much longer will you torment me?"