← Shen CongwenXiao Xiaoby Shen CongwenStory of a village girl's life and romantic awakeningFind on Amazon↗About the authorShen CongwenChinese 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.More by Shen CongwenBorder TownLyrical novel of ethnic minorities and pastoral life in western China→The Chinese Earth→Long RiverNovel of life in rural China depicting social upheaval and displacement→Alice in China→
