To Whom the Rose Is Given, Part 1 of the Longyuan Trilogy

"To Whom the Rose Is Given" (Part 1 of the Longyuan Trilogy) is a full-length love novel written by the outstanding contemporary Chinese novelist Zhou Jingfeng. The young poet Qin Song was trapped in the wave of layoffs in Longdong in 1998. Unemployment, rent arrears, lawsuits, literary ideals were crushed by reality. The city was closed due to snow, and he wandered alone, witnessing the suffering in the city, but was ridiculed by the world as "writing poetry is useless." Submissions were rejected, relatives and friends were alienated, illness and hardship were compounded, and life fell into a desperate situation. With an oil lamp and half a volume of incomplete manuscripts, he reread his hometown in the cold night and asked about the meaning of the words. Until the lights in the Han family courtyard illuminated the way home, salvation came quietly. From romantic dreams to facing the world, a literary nirvana for ordinary people begins.