Distant Sunflower Field

About This Novel

2017 Chinese Good Books, winner of the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award. The sunflowers in Altay are more intense than those in Arles, and the closest relatives and livestock are all family members. Li Juan, a critically acclaimed new generation of non-fiction prose writer, is a new masterpiece following the "Sheep Road" trilogy. Mother took her poultry and livestock with her family and moved to the Gobi on the banks of the Ulungu River. They settled in a "winter nest" beside a sunflower field and began a farming life full of hardships and adventures. A hundred acres of sunflower land opened up in the desert experienced goose-throated antelopes, three replantings, and successive droughts and insect pests until the harvest, with a faint hope and a long wait in between... In these auspicious records, the author focused his thoughts on the details of the lives of his family members for the first time. They and the boundless desert constitute a complete ecological sample.

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