The disease and death in a village

Author: Zhang Shaomin
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This is a work set against the backdrop of a village, with illness and death as its two major themes. By depicting the illnesses and deaths of several generations, it portrays the history of illness and death in a village, weaving the village into a temporal and spatial web of illness and death. Writing about the illness or death of one person involves the participation of others, thus creating a story with more flesh and tension. Within this web, the blank spaces left at the gaps in the web are just as important as the style of its lines.