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Books by Snake Eats People
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Life Afloat on the Riverbank 江岸浮生
[Contemporary realism + period chronicle + rural ensemble cast + women’s struggles] Spanning half a century of rural China, this book tells the story of three generations of women on the Jianghan Plain. Caught in the tides of history and the shackles of their families of origin, each struggles against fate in her own way and faces her inner demons, ultimately learning to live for herself. (I’m only here to tell the story as it is. I won’t give the characters perfect personalities. I’ll portray h
485Reads8.5Score108Shelves
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Hesitation on Returning Home 近乡彷徨
One evening in 1993, an oil lamp glowed inside a dimly lit, tiled-roof house. The laboring mother, Wan Ziyuan, cried out in anguish. After a full day of grueling farm work, she was already too exhausted to go on. But making a living came first, and she couldn’t afford to care about the pain right now! All she could think was that she needed to give birth to a son.
194Reads—Score—Shelves
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Homesick and Hesitant [II] 近乡彷徨【二】
On a bitterly cold winter morning, the north wind howled. Zhang Jie lay wide awake in the dilapidated north room of her old house. After being away from home for so long, her thoughts drifted back to 2005, when she was in her first year of junior high at Huangtan Town Middle School.
17Reads—Score—Shelves