The Romance of Crotch Alley
by Fan Xiaoqing
About This Novel
This book mainly records all aspects of the lives of the lower class people living in Suzhou's Pantong Alley, focusing on the three representative families of Wu, Qiao and Zhang. The time span is from before and after liberation to the period of reform and opening up. With the changes in the social system and the changes in "houses", wealthy landowners have become civilians, and civilians have squeezed into the not-so-wide crotch alley. Things about the house became more and more tense. During this period, some people made a fortune by fishing in troubled waters, some encountered misfortune, and some escaped from danger. The common people in Crotch Alley each had their own ideas and eventually went their separate ways, while the die-hard conservatives still clung to the dilapidated Crotch Alley, looking forward to far-fetched construction plans, institutional changes, housing demolition and distribution...
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