Pan Jinlian Flees Ximen Town — A Long Original Work by the Shepherd Boy — A Long Original Work by the Shepherd Boy

Author: Yan Lianke
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: With a compassionate and sincere attitude, the author uses simple and straightforward literary language to narrate the warmth and coldness of the human world, while also leaving readers with profound reflections. In The Golden Lotus, Pan Jinlian was labeled as an eternal harlot, and to this day, her name remains untarnished. The writer Yan Lianke ingeniously reinserts the protagonists of the classical masterpiece into the whirlpool of contemporary life, weaving a story of life and love filled with bitterness, sorrow, and hardship centered around Jinlian. Jinlian falls in love with the second brother and, out of desperation, marries the first. She sacrifices her body to benefit the entire village, yet still cannot escape being despised, ignored, and mocked.