Nine Pieces of Snow
by Li Juan
About This Novel
Li Juan, the winner of the People's Literature Award and the Lu Xun Literature Award, is a stunning and famous work in the literary world. It has been a best-seller for nearly 20 years and is highly recommended by Liu Liangcheng and Li Jingze! "When I wrote these words, I was deeply in love with a person, and my love and desire for him permeated the lines." It writes the story of Li Juan's life in the Altay grassland of Xinjiang as a girl, yarding the village, setting up tents, doing business, driving cattle, and herding. Sheep, looking for sparrows, living in the mountains, walking in the Gobi desert, carrying water, eating and catching meat... Groups of daily scenes show the unknown aspects of life in Altay to the world. It is a mesmerizing pastoral of the Western Regions that hides the primitive wildness. Even in difficult and desperate places, bright fruits will be produced. When we leave there, what we are thinking about is how to come back better - this book is like Li Juan's personal souvenir album, retaining the true images of her girlhood full of strange hope, and also playing the prelude to her rich and beautiful literary world.
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Official(1)Scraped 11d ago
The exotic scenes described in the first two articles are really beautiful. It has the flavor of a local novel, and the writing is smart and expressive. Since then, I have longed for the Atele Grassland and longed for a grassland culture. Of course, the existence of drunkards also reminded me that life there is also very painful. The third article is more of an inner description and is not very understandable.
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Official(1)Scraped 11d ago
The exotic scenes described in the first two articles are really beautiful. It has the flavor of a local novel, and the writing is smart and expressive. Since then, I have longed for the Atele Grassland and longed for a grassland culture. Of course, the existence of drunkards also reminded me that life there is also very painful. The third article is more of an inner description and is not very understandable.
