The novel is set in the border villages of Shanxi and Mongolia at the end of the last century. It describes the pursuit of rural love by a wealthy bachelor, the magical life of the rich son of the village guard, the ups and downs of an old sheepherder recruiting soldiers to marry a crazy beauty, the struggle of the third daughter and the barbarian daughter against the unfair fate, and the warm-hearted ancient roads of the three widows living as bodhisattvas. It has the color of magical realism and expresses the yearning of rural life among contemporary urbanites.
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