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Hong Ke

红柯

China

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Books on prize lists

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    Mao Dun 2015 · Nominee

    喀拉布风暴

    Kalabu fengbao

    Title translated by AI:“Karabu Storm”

    Hong Ke

    Novel · Love, Nature

    AI-generated summary:In the small Xinjiang town of Jinghe, a solitary newcomer who walks into the desert to meet its sandstorms catches the eye of Yehaiya, a local woman about to marry the man she has loved for eight years.

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    Mao Dun 2008 · Nominee

    乌尔禾

    Wu'erhe

    Hong Ke

    Novel · Love

    AI-generated summary:Two men and a woman in Urho, on the Xinjiang steppe, are bound together in a love story that echoes the legend of Hailibu, the Mongol hunter who turned to stone to warn the herders of a coming disaster.

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    Mao Dun 2005 · Nominee

    西去的骑手

    Xi qu de qishou

    Title translated by AI:“The Riders Who Went West”

    Hong Ke

    Novel · War, Historical

    AI-generated summary:In the 1920s, Ma Zhongying of Hezhou in Gansu rises against the warlords and his family's elders at seventeen. After a heavy defeat he leads what is left of his cavalry west into Xinjiang, against Sheng Shicai, who calls in Soviet troops.