Hu Xuewen spent eight years writing From Beginning of Life, which offers a broad depiction of life in century-old China. Centering around a great grandmother who delivered more than 12,000 people, the book builds a magnificent and vast literary world with these newborns that involves the rituals, morals, bloodlines and localities of rural society in China.

About the author:

Hu Xuewen is a member of the China Writers Association and a professional writer of the Jiangsu Writers Association. He has received the National Outstanding Novel Award from Best Selling Novels, Hundred Flowers Award from Fiction Monthly, Literary Award from October, Novelette Award from Beijing Literature, and an award from Selected Novellas. His novelette Twilight from Midday was awarded the 6th Lu Xun Literature Prize. Blood Plum Blossoms won the 14th National "Five-One" Project Award. His novel The Running Moonlight was adapted into the film A Spoon.

Author: Hu Xuewen

Publication Date: Jan 2021

Price: 128 yuan

ISBN: 978-7-5594-5331-0

Rights: World