Nangen Mountain
by Wu Jingya
About This Novel
"Nangen Mountain" is a story entangled with male totems, with a surrealistic allegorical style. The heroine was born in China in the 1960s, grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, and was active in the early 21st century. These sensitive periods in China are also the years when China's gender relations are most turbulent, fissile, and ever-changing. Yihua has become a symbol of women in this period: at a loss, contradictory, multiple, self-aggrandizing yet self-destructive. Faced with the miserable scene, Yihua, who is wandering between the roles of a godmother warrior and a prisoner of war, has been trying to find a third way, that is, men and women are not innately opposite poles, but innate androgynous. The author's exploration and thinking are different from those of previous female writers such as Duras, Woolf, Zhang Ailing, etc. Many of the author's perceptions of life, life, emotions and gender culture have the avant-garde and subversive flavor of 21st century women. It is a very weird and tangled love novel, a phantom of Platonic love.
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Official(2)Scraped 23d ago
Just the right amount of ethereal, sad and wild
After reading it, it is a book that becomes more and more interesting the more I read it. When I first read it, I still had a mysterious sense of literary youth. The further I read, the more I felt like a trickle of words turned into a broad river surface. It was particularly comfortable to read. There is an immersive atmosphere as I keep reading, echoing the beginning and end, but the ending is not very satisfying, and the story develops a bit too fast in the later stages.
The writing is good, the writing style is very witty, and the perspective is unique. It is somewhat similar to Mo Yan's writing style. However, after ****** searched for this book, I was very angry because I found that the cover of the physical book had stolen the poster of the movie The Lovely Bones. . .
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Official(2)Scraped 23d ago
Just the right amount of ethereal, sad and wild
After reading it, it is a book that becomes more and more interesting the more I read it. When I first read it, I still had a mysterious sense of literary youth. The further I read, the more I felt like a trickle of words turned into a broad river surface. It was particularly comfortable to read. There is an immersive atmosphere as I keep reading, echoing the beginning and end, but the ending is not very satisfying, and the story develops a bit too fast in the later stages.
The writing is good, the writing style is very witty, and the perspective is unique. It is somewhat similar to Mo Yan's writing style. However, after ****** searched for this book, I was very angry because I found that the cover of the physical book had stolen the poster of the movie The Lovely Bones. . .
