Hong Ying · Shanghai Magician

Author: Hongying
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Hongying, a renowned writer, debuts her first warm love novel, marking a transitional work. It perfectly combines the simple prose style of Daughter of Hunger with the delicate writing of K, filled with hazy, magical, and mysterious teenage emotions. Unlike her previous works with tragic and imperfect endings, this tells a heartwarming story. The wandering Jew "King Solomon" and his adopted Chinese child "Prince Gary" encounter the mischievous acrobat girl Lanhur and her traveling troupe. In Shanghai's Grand World from 1945 to 1948, the times are turbulent, and Western magic and the circus troupe survive under the changing circumstances, each harboring their own secrets. The magical illusions, thrilling acrobatics, and the enigmatic sibling mystery are illuminated by the hazy, magical, and mysterious emotions of the two teenagers. Their ( means "harmonious cooperation" in English) brings out exquisite skills, escaping death time and again. They finally realize that they cannot be separated in this life.