Contents Briefing
This is a book costing the author six years to create with great concentration, which hasn't been comparable by any other work in the past. The book changes the author's tone of concerning the women's fate and focusing on the personal feeling world, but rather intercepts the history cross-section from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the mid 1940 (for nearly 50 years), takes the lives in a small village located in Middle-Hebei Plain as chief source and the Xiangs as main line, with realistic approach, simple, smart and lively narrative style with full of humor and wit, subtly integrates unpredictable ups and downs and difficultly-grasp history of China into "ordinary people and ordinary things". The complicated great waves of the times, the vivid display of the fickleness of human relationships and the characters' fate, which is accidental in inevitable state and inevitable in accidental state...are elaborately combined by the Author: into one. The book is wonderful rather than being vulgar, the book is worth reading a hundred times rather than being abstruse, the book is graceful rather than being majestic, the book is down-to-earth rather than being redundant. With sublime grace, Thickheaded Flower can be crowned as the most influential artwork by Tie Ning to date.
Publisher Profile
The people's Literature Publishing House, founded in March 1951, is a national publishing institution whose subsidiary is the Foreign Literature Publishing House. It has published a considerable amount of classic Chinese literary works, representative works of modern and contemporary literature and Chinese versions of outstanding overseas literary works, as well as works on literary theories and children's books etc. Books published over the years have formed an excellent series of public... more about
Author Profile
Tie Ning was born in 1957 in Beijing. She is a native of Zhao County (Hebei). After graduating from high school, she settled in the countryside and merge into the peasant to farm for a living. Growing up in two sides of the Yellow River, she is the proud daughter of Hebei (used to be Yan State and Zhao State). Since 1975, she has started to publish literary works. Her major works includes four saga novels such as Rosy Gate, City without Rains, Bathing Woman and Thickheaded Flower, more than 100 novellas such as Cornstock and Opposite, short stories such as Afternoon Cliff and Collection of Tie Ning's Works, as well as proses and essays with a total of more than 300 million Chinese characters. Oh, Xiangxue and Topic in June won National Best Novella Award. Collection of essays Women's White Night won the first Lu Xun Literature Award. How Far is Forever won the second Lu Xun Literature Award and the sixth Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award. The film "Oh, Xiangxue", in which Tie Ning served as playwright, won Grand Award of the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. She is the incumbent Chairman of China Writers Association.
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