Border Town

Name: Border Town
Author: Shen Congwen

by Shen Congwen

Lyrical novel of ethnic minorities and pastoral life in western China

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Shen Congwen

Chinese modernist novelist and folklorist whose lyrical novel Border Town evokes the landscape and people of western Hunan with a melancholy pastoral beauty. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize multiple times.

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