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怀念狼

Huainian lang

“Remembering Wolves” (title translated by AI)

Jia Pingwa (贾平凹, born 1952)

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A journalist for whom nothing ever goes right travels to Shangzhou and learns that hunting teams there once killed off the wolves: only fifteen are left, and each has been given a number. Curious, he sets out to find them. On the way he runs into his uncle, the leader of a wolf-hunting team, who was carried off by a wolf at the age of seven and still bears three scars on his neck; now he and a man called Lantou have become wardens counting the last wolves. The search draws them into a string of strange events in which people seem to turn into wolves and wolves into people, as the wolves begin to be killed one by one. Without wolves to fight, the people of Shangzhou are growing weak in body and spirit.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Nature (assigned by AI)
Set in
China
First published
2000 by Writers Publishing House
Author's age
48 when first published