
All the Wind Blows Only Towards Them
by Liu Ting
About This Novel
This book contains four novellas, each written about a contemporary woman of different ages spanning the city and the countryside. The author named them respectively after "Plum Blossoms, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum". They spanned, wandered and made choices between urban and rural areas... Su Huilan, an ordinary 20-year-old young man, maintained a girlish mentality and tried hard to keep up with the times. She listened to poetry recitals, played Douyin, and from time to time had a spontaneous trip, and also shed sincere tears. The 30-year-old He Xiuzhu has overcome all kinds of obstacles and reefs and reached the middle of her life. With a graduate degree and a positive enthusiasm for life, she has squeezed into the middle class of big cities. Her life is full of the bloody stories that are common in this era. When choosing a house and a school, she seems to be a low-end version of "Gu Jia", always having to fight with all her strength. 40-Year-old Wei Xiaoju is not glamorous. She pursues city life, divorces her husband, loves vanity, and steals from her employer. She is a person who is tempted by the distance and another life, but she is also pursuing her own ideals and yearning for a broader world. Yin Xuemei, 50, is an "aunt" who came to the city from the countryside because of her granddaughter. She formed a small group with the "aunt" in the same hospital who looked after her baby, observing, comparing, competing and cooperating with each other. These women are the myriad appearances of life, devoid of rational sophistication, floating on the heat of life, let alone critics and introspectors. They are among the fireworks in the market, beside each of us. They have inexplicable stubbornness and brutal energy, and they can move around in the cracks, and each of them is "alive and living grandly."
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