The Songless City-state

About This Novel

This is a critical realist novel with urban themes and a history of urban grassroots struggle. The work is based on the rough experiences of rural youths struggling in Haidu. Through the bitter and touching stories that happened between them, the work vividly depicts the fate of a group of people at the bottom of society. It shows the hardship, suffering and humility of urban marginalized groups such as migrant workers in the process of industrialization and urbanization in China, as well as their yearning for a better life and their persistent pursuit of happy love. It reveals the fierce conflicts between soul and body, humanity and money, spirit and material, and the dual values ​​of urban and rural areas among the migrant workers in the feasting and eccentricity of big cities, as well as the embarrassment of their existence as "a city they cannot stay in, a country they cannot return to" and their "blurred identity" of "farmers in the eyes of city people, city people in the eyes of farmers". The work is a realistic map that truly shows the living conditions of marginalized groups in contemporary Chinese cities.

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