The Story That Happened in Xuyingdong

About This Novel

"With a house, can I live like a human being?" The latest masterpiece of "Kim Ji-young Born in 1982" author Zhao Nanzhu shows everyone's unavoidable ordinary desires. The story revolves around a fictional place, Xuyingdong, and connects various characters in Xuyingdong in the form of multiple short stories. Through the interplay of these characters, a condensed social landscape of East Asia is depicted. Among these characters are young couples with hugely different family backgrounds who love each other but always find it difficult to understand each other; there are elderly people who have retired but still work without dignity but with meager income for the sake of their sons and grandchildren; there are stay-at-home mothers who quit their jobs for the sake of their children but are helpless when their children are hurt by problem children in the class; there are fathers who look down on powerful and selfish fathers but rely on them to live. There is a female white-collar worker; there is a tutoring school principal who is dependent on her son and mother, but the generation gap between her and her son is getting bigger and bigger while neglecting her mother; there is a middle-aged couple who has been working hard all their lives for a better house but feels that the house is both a source of happiness and a source of misfortune because of the noise problem in the neighborhood; there is a young man who is working hard in a big city and has no fixed place to live but has a firm belief in his dream. When a house becomes a lifelong proposition for people, does owning a house mean happiness? The story that happened in Xuyingdong is also the story of each of us.

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