Filtered sunlight -- New novella by Yi Xiangdong: New novella by Yi Xiangdong

Author: Yi Xiangdong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: New series of works by winners of the "Lao She Literature Prize." "As the sun set, the truck drove out of the village in the gaze of a woman named Zhang Zhenjun. The woman had been watching from the doorway, her gaze growing farther and farther away, until it finally settled on the top of a hill outside the village. At the top of the hill, the truck was no more than a fist-sized black shadow, flickering slightly before disappearing on the other side of the hill. The woman then rubbed her tired eyes and slowly made her way back to the house. From that moment on, her heart remained suspended, hanging until the day her man returned."