Cangcheng

About This Novel

"Cangcheng" is Acuo's first original novel. The story takes place in Cangcheng, a small town in the folds of the Hengduan Mountains in Yunnan. It was once a granary in northwest Yunnan and an important town on the Tea Horse Road. It is full of Confucian culture from the Central Plains and mysterious rural folk customs from the frontier. The book reveals the unique atmosphere of the mountains in northwest Yunnan and the fireworks in the cities of small counties. Something big happened in Cangcheng. The fairy lady died. Everyone rushed to tell each other, and "I" woke up from the ghostly dream of childhood. "Cangcheng" also draws from the death of this goddess whose authenticity is difficult to tell, and draws out all the living beings in the small county in northwest Yunnan - the "Zhai girl" who never married, and the "female horse driver" who works alone in the caravan for the sake of family livelihood... These women are not given a choice in life, but they use their strong vitality to find a way out for themselves. The young writer Acuo salvaged the folklore of Cangcheng, a small southwestern city, and presented the life and death, love and pain of women. With unconventional narrative and a sincere and passionate voice, he told us the absurdity, weirdness and true cruelty of fate. Especially, when "Narcissus" was kidnapped into the wild mountains and became the slave of bandits, she was asked to survive when her father died. How to live? --Learn from Heaven. If God lets you live, live. From a girl to a goddess, from the bandit wilderness to her hometown town, her life bloomed in despair. This kind of original wildness and never-ending vitality is exactly the spiritual medicine we need right now.

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