This collection of Guangxi's emerging novelist, Xu Xiaoya, narrates 10 stories from the perspective of females. These stories are a cross-section presenting the life of the world’s living beings.
-Li Entong

★The stories of 10 ordinary people are a cross-section presenting the life of the world’s living beings; a kaleidoscope showing people’s feelings; a lighthouse illuminating the distant ways for those who are stuck in life.

★From the perspective of a daughter and a mother, this book describes various observations and sensitive emotional changes of women’s lives during their growth from their partners and those closest to them.

★The book expresses the traditional emotions faced by the female group in pursuit of life quality and emotional experience, as well as their life picture and mental state of the contradiction in modern life. It also indicates the author’s deep caring and thoughts for women’s growth.

★The work has abundant contents, the breadth of subjects and a novel style

Consisted of 9 short stories and 1 novella, this book mainly talks about women, discussing their living conditions and dilemmas in parent-child relationships, gender relationships and the social gaze. It shows a cross-section of different lives through the experience of 10 ordinary people. The author uses her sharp insights as a novelist, and her accurate descriptions to point out the deep pain in life that is easy to ignore. The text is delicate but not trivial. The stories are ordinary but straight to the heart. The narrative is fluent but restrained as well. These stories could delve into the life and spiritual world of modern people, demonstrating the delicate relationships among people and between humans and society.

Xu Xiaoya was born in 1987 in Nanning, Guangxi. She has a maste's degree in literature from Xiamen University and is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Humanities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is a member of the Chinese Writers' Association and a participant of the 34th Senior Seminar for Young and Middle-aged Writers of Lu Xun Literature Institute. She is a novelist and a critic. She was awarded the first prize in the National New Concept Composition Competition. Her works have been published in Southern Cultural Forum, Modern Literary Magazine, Zhongshan Magazine, Guangxi Literature Monthly, Youth Literature, Changjiang Literature & Art, etc. Some of her works have been reprinted in Novel Monthly, Selected Novels, and Beijing Literature (Novella Monthly). She has published collections of her own novels, Purity, and The Maiden and the Titanic.

Lan (a traditional Chinese nickname)
Kong Ta (a story about a man and his ex-wife)
Teeth Extraction
The Maiden and the Titanic
The End of the Earth
The Door
Conjugal Felicity
For Real
Save the Breasts
The Song of a Sad Pelican
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