Pattern

Author: Hainan
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Hainan is renowned for her poetry and later ventured into fiction. With her graceful and expressive writing style, she delves into the hidden depths of women's souls, bold and unrestrained, pioneering the current trend of women's literature. The book "Patterns" carries forward her courage in writing, employing a delicate and natural structure; its bright and lucid language narrates the fated relationships between women and women, as well as women and men. The portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship in the book reaches a startling depth. "Patterns" is a distinctive pattern on this long tapestry of the novel. – Writer Mo Yan
During her university years, Xiao Yu, who occasionally returned home, secretly witnessed her mother and a stranger engaged in a "sexual" scene. The sexual poses they displayed were etched into the heart of the young Xiao Yu like a pattern. From that moment on, the girl Xiao Yu found herself plunging into the abyss of sexuality. She saw the "pattern" on her mother's naked body—the flower she had always been unable to name—changing her life...