A Foreign Country
by Chen Hui
About This Novel
"Other Country" is a collection of group portrait stories truly written by civilian women and seeing the lives of civilian women. Following the popular "In the Market, In the World", "Female Market Writer" Chen Hui once again returns to character narrative, telling the life and destiny of women in small towns in China with earthy and simple brushwork and gentle moonlight gaze. In the villages in the plains of Jiangsu and the countryside of small towns in Zhejiang, most of the women the author saw lived simple and silent lives. With the patience of sifting grains of rice, she sifted away the tares of curiosity and the chaff of pretentiousness, and wrote down their joys, sorrows, and joys truthfully, making them no longer strangers but like female elders or female neighbors around the reader. The author writes about "their" stories - neighbors, friends, customers, vendors at the same market, and also writes about "our" stories - me, my adoptive mother, grandma, aunts and sisters... As a witness, he records the respectable, lovely, pitiful and sensible aspects of civilian women, and records the true nature of life and life from an equal perspective.
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Official(1)Scraped 20d ago
Delicate observations, simple emotions, and true expressions of self-awareness.
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Delicate observations, simple emotions, and true expressions of self-awareness.
