Born in 1978, Ren Xiaowen is one of the most brilliant writers of contemporary Chinese literature, author of novels and collections of short stories acclaimed by critics and crowned with numerous literary awards, among which we can quote: "The Women" , Tamen (《她们》), “On the Island”, Dao Shang (《岛上》) and “The third daughter of the Zhu family”, Zhu sanxiaojie from yi sheng (《朱 三 小姐 的 一生》). "On the balcony", Yangtai shang (《阳台 上》), is one of his best-known stories, halfway between short story and novel, chosen for its qualities of substance as well as form to inaugurate the new collection of Chinese novellas "Novella de Chine".

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