Lonely Seventeen Years Old
by Bai Xianyong
About This Novel
"Lonely Seventeen" contains many of Bai Xianyong's early and middle short stories. Bai Xianyong's early novels can be divided into two categories: one is novels that are more or less rewritten based on his own personal experience: "Grandma Jin," "Let's Go to Look at the Chrysanthemums", "Sister-in-law Yuqing", and "The Lonely Seventeen Years Old", which to some extent reveal the author's childhood and teenage self. The second category has a heavy fantasy component. The most obvious example is "Youth". In addition, "Thunder", "Black Rainbow", "Little Indian Spring", and "The Hand Hidden in the Pocket" are also products of fantasy to some extent. Xia Zhiqing believes that Bai Xianyong is a genius among contemporary Chinese short story novelists. Since the May Fourth Movement, there are only five or six people who can rival him in artistic achievements, from Lu Xun to Zhang Ailing.
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