A Collection of Sad Stories from Pingle Town
by Yan Ge
About This Novel
In "Collection of Sad Stories from Pingle Town", the author describes scenes of citizen life in a small town in western Sichuan that combine daily life and fantasy: a little girl who keeps seeing white horses in the night and hallucinations ("White Horse"), a clothing store proprietress who stumbles into love in boiling desire ("Tang Baozhen in Jiangxi Town"), middle-aged people who are worried about their livelihood or children, but the memories of their youth are constantly looking for them ("Math Olympiad Class") 1995")... Some stories present the cruel and intense adolescent psychology ("The Demon Mirror"), and some scenes show the tranquil and warm human experience ("Trinity Tea Party"), but whether it is the characters' compromise with money and desire, or the pursuit of spiritual life and freedom, they are all compressed by the author into a sand table-like microscopic town scene, and this is the story of her fictional town "Pingle Town" in western Sichuan.
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