Novel of Puberty -- Blue Homeland

Author: Zeng Xiaochun
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This is a legendary tale of a struggling (wandering soul) pursuing dreams and hope; it is a magnificent landscape of mountain children enduring hardships and tenaciously surviving. The story takes place in a remote southern village. A family of outsiders and a family of returnees struggle to gain acceptance from the villagers. The children of both families witness and experience various changes closely tied to their family destinies: the struggles to choose a site for building houses, the farce of drawing lots to divide farmland, the bitterness of brothers fighting over a surname, the solemnity of kneeling in prayer for rain, the brutality of fishing and destroying forests, and the dispersal of migration. For this trembling ancient land, their young hearts are filled with conflicting emotions of love and hatred. The homeland they seek to return to sinks into a vast blue ocean. Rich and profound in meaning, concise and elegant in writing, subtle and realistic in mindset, the story's wavering and diverse plot is thought-provoking and leaves a lasting impression.