宝水

Baoshui, a village deep in the Taihang Mountains, is changing from a traditional farming community into one that lives from tourism. Di Qingping, middle-aged and suffering from severe insomnia, takes early retirement and leaves the city of Xiangcheng to help a friend run a guesthouse there. Drawn, with mixed feelings, into the village's daily affairs, she watches its transformation from the inside, among plain people with many stories and quiet secrets. Told in four parts that follow the seasons from winter round to winter, the novel portrays a Chinese village in the middle of change.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

527 pages in the original

Set in

China

First published

2022 by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9787530222669 (original)