Lotus Falls
by Mu Shiying
About This Novel
"Lotus Falls" is set in the war era and tells the story of a low-class man and woman who lost their families due to the war and wandered to survive. The protagonist "I" and the woman met on the way to escape, and together they made a living by singing "Lotus Falls" and begging. From the initial dependence on each other in the pavilion to the wandering of the world for more than 20 years, the two formed a life community of "we are two people" while being hungry and cold. The novel runs through the melody of "Lotus Falling", which not only presents their difficult daily life of singing and selling on the street, but also metaphors their fate to be wandering like duckweeds. As the woman died of illness on a cold night, "I" continued to wander alone, repeating the murmur of "we are two people", savoring the warmth of the past and the absurdity of existence in loneliness. Mu Shiying used the fragmented narrative and delicate psychological description unique to the New Sensation School to embed the fate of individuals in the war into the intertwined scenes of urban and rural areas. This not only portrayed the powerlessness of the people at the bottom in the torrent of the times, but also gave the suffering a poetic lament through the folk art form of "Flowers Falling". This collection also includes "Black Peony", "Smoke" and "Portrait of a Platinum Female Body".
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