Deserted City

About This Novel

"Desolate City" is Zhou Jianing's first-person novel, which the author herself regards as the starting point of her writing. For both the characters in "Desolate City" and readers born in the 1980s and 1990s who grew up with Zhou Jianing, this story may be the final chapter of their connection with their long youth, and the prelude to their reconciliation with the adult world. Before leaving his hometown of Shanghai, the protagonist "I" in the novel worked in a cafe, met all kinds of people, and spent the last worry-free time in his life. During the three years of Beidiao, "I" had a fierce collision with society, and fell into an emotional quagmire with all the pain. Now "I" am back in Shanghai, reunited with all my former friends, standing on the edge of my thirties, entangled with two memories while saying goodbye, as if struggling to wake up from a dream. The novel delicately describes the young generation's journey of saying goodbye to their youth, and reflects the loneliness, confusion and emptiness of contemporary urban youth as they grow up.

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