Fragrance
by Zhou Xuanpu
About This Novel
She is a sunflower that stands strong under the scorching sun, supporting her brother and helping her father. She is a morning glory blooming in the cracks, clumsily relying on the home as a fence. She is a beautiful red plum in the cold wind. Even after being abandoned by her husband's family, she will still emit a delicate fragrance. She is a cluster of cotton in a peasant quilt, warming a paralyzed husband and a house full of children. "Fragrance" focuses on a brother and sister who grew up in poverty, focusing on the ups and downs of women such as Lie Fang, and depicting the lives of dozens of people from four generations in a large family. The struggle of the little people is written with a pen full of beauty, and their spiritual transformation is recorded; the historical changes of the Central Plains countryside from the 1970s to the present are reproduced with vibrant and vivid details. The author puts into words the affection between families who help each other and whose blood is thicker than water. The deep and simple love and attachment to his hometown in the words are moving.
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