Holy Family
by Liang Hong
About This Novel
"Holy Family" is Liang Hong's first collection of short and medium-length novels. It contains 12 Wuzhen stories that can be written independently but are interrelated. They describe the folk world and the complex shape of human life in contemporary small towns in China. The 12 main characters in the novel, including the young Ah Qing, the homeless man Dequan, the doctor Yi Zhi, the beauty Caihong who never leaves the store, the old Li Ge who knows Yin and Yang Xianer, the young civil servant Hong Zhong who studies the Book of Changes, the depressed primary school teacher Mingliang, etc. They sit in Wuzhen and look out. Liang Hong placed the stories of these characters on the edge of social status, but each with their own pain, contradictions and struggles, in a mutating, seemingly indestructible and crumbling rural landscape. Through their tragic and joyous lives, he showed the light of life buried deep in the desolate place.
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