"Shangshi Street" is Xiao Hong's masterpiece of prose. This book completely contains 41 essays from "Shangshi Street" first published by Cultural Life Publishing House in 1936, and 19 representative prose works of Xiao Hong from different periods, such as "In Memory of Mr. Lu Xun", "Chang'an Temple", "A Letter to the Northeastern Exiles" and Xiao Hong's "September 18 Letter to My Brother" written to his younger brother.
Many of the selected chapters record the poor but happy life of Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun when they lived together. They are highly autobiographical and are the best entry point to understand Xiao Hong's life. The overall style has strong characteristics of social customs painting, with concise and simple language, sincere emotions and very strong readability.
Reader comments
The writing style of this book is real and natural, and the writing is smooth. It tells her life story as if she is chatting with you. Xiao Hong's writing is very graphic and can make people feel the social customs of that era. Her descriptions of the details of life are very delicate and her emotional expressions are sincere, making it easy for me to relate to her. This is a book worth reading, I recommend it to you!
The writing style of this book is real and natural, and the writing is smooth. It tells her life story as if she is chatting with you. Xiao Hong's writing is very graphic and can make people feel the social customs of that era. Her descriptions of the details of life are very delicate and her emotional expressions are sincere, making it easy for me to relate to her. This is a book worth reading, I recommend it to you!