[Romain Rolland said "I was deeply moved by this story"]
[Edgar Snow: "The first novel by another Chinese writer other than Lu Xun"]
This book is a classic masterpiece by Rou Shi, one of the "Five Martyrs of the Left Alliance" and an important representative writer of the Left Alliance literature. It has been translated into Japanese, English, French, Russian and other languages, published all over the world, and won the praise of French writer Romain Rolland. Since the 1980s, it has been adapted into comic strips, TV series and movies, and is a Chinese classic that has had a great influence in China and even the world. The work focuses on portraying the image of Chun Baoniang, a poor woman who was oppressed, destroyed and ravaged. Due to the pressure of life, she had to reluctantly leave her 5-year-old son Chunbao behind, and was pawned by her husband to a landlord scholar's house in a neighboring village to be used as a tool to give birth to a son. After the landowner's goal was achieved, she was forced to part ways with her other son Qiubao... This book also includes Rou Shi's novel "February", which reflects the darkness and depressing society on the eve of the Great Revolution, the distress of intellectuals who can't find a way out, and expresses the author's thinking on life. The characters in the work are vivid and the language is poetic.
