Border Town
by Shen Congwen
About This Novel
"Border Town" is Shen Congwen's novel. It is the one that expresses the beauty of human nature among all his works. It is also an excellent novel expressing local feelings in the history of Chinese literature. The novel is set in Chadong, a border town in the 1930s at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan. It takes the love tragedy of daughter Cuicui and her lover Nuosu as the main line. With a beautiful style that combines lyric poetry and essays, it depicts the simple folk customs and natural living conditions of the border town in western Hunan, and bitterly tells the painful fact that the people of western Hunan cannot control their own destiny in the face of "nature" and "human affairs". The language of the novel is simple and fresh, the writing is pure and clear, and the author's most beautiful and beloved aesthetic ideals are placed in every line of the words. Its unique artistic charm and unique customs have attracted a large number of readers at home and abroad, and also established the lofty status of "Border Town" in the history of modern Chinese literature.
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