“The Village Girl and the Coward,” also known as “That Village,” is one of the three novels in the “Na” series by Mr. Wang Renzhi, a member of the China Land and Resources Writers Association. Wang Renzhi, who has also written under the pen names Wang Xiaobo and Mo Xiyang, holds the title of senior reporter and was named one of the nation's ten outstanding journalists. He has extensive social experience and insight. His short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in publications including Guangxi Literature, Prose Poetry, Guangxi Daily, Workers' Daily, and People's Daily. In “The Village Girl and the Coward,” the author uses a naturalistic style to portray the love story of a pair of rural youths against a particular social backdrop, and recounts the struggle of village farm children to pursue a happy life. The work has a strong primal quality, like a medium-rare steak paired with potent whiskey: intensely readable and soul-shaking.
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