Beauty
by Zhang Huiwen
About This Novel
Every small town has a few beauties who are "household names". In the late 1980s, there were three famous beauties in "my" hometown: He Li, Lina, and Hongxia. They were born beautiful, but they did not receive the favor of fate because of this; they brought the enlightenment of beauty and youthful nostalgia to the small town, and also attracted people's curious prying eyes and rumors. Over the past thirty years, amid the great changes of the times and the twists and turns of fate, the beauties seemed weak and unable to drift with the tide, but they persisted in life and tried their best to pursue their own happiness, settling into another history of the place. "Beauty" is a work by the writer Zhang Huiwen looking back at her hometown after living overseas for more than ten years. It uses the legendary life and series of stories of the beauty in a small town in northern China to reflect the great historical changes since China's social transformation at the end of the 20th century. It traces the unique growth process and life experience of a generation of Chinese women, and awakens the flexible and unbreakable female power that comes from simple vitality.
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