Childhood Sweethearts
About This Novel
This is the short story "Childhood Sweethearts" that made the author an instant hit. It is praised for its sentimental and sad description of hazy first love and adolescent boys and girls. Since its publication, it has been published again and again, and Chinese translations have emerged one after another, and it has been loved by many generations. This article takes place in the early Meiji period of Japan, in Yoshihara Flower Street, a famous custom area in Shitamachi, Tokyo. Focusing on the adolescence of the prostitute's sister Medengli, it describes the ecology of the children around Flower Street in this specific social environment, and foreshadows their future life trends. Yu Hua said in his collection of essays "The Death of the Heart": "The Japanese writer Higuchi Kazuyo can undoubtedly be ranked among the greatest female writers of the 19th century. Her "Childhood Sweethearts" is the most beautiful love chapter I have ever read. Her deeply rooted narrative has the warmth of the sun and the coolness of the night." The author writes in the form of ancient Japanese, so this book also adopts a slightly antique language style for translation, hoping to reproduce the sense of the times and hazy freshness of the original text on the paper.
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