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Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk

Lu Xun

Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk

Paper book: €13.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1928
Bilingual edition
22 October 2026
Pages
80
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Biography and Autobiography, Psychology
Moods
Be moved to tears, Travel back in time, Meet a real life
Translated from
Chinese

Book summary

Lu Xun remembers his childhood and youth: the Hundred-Plant Garden where he used to play, his old nurse and the book of monsters she gave him, the temple fair he could only see after reciting his lesson. Then come his father's illness, and his student years in Japan with his teacher, Fujino.

Ten bittersweet memories, in which we discover the childhood of the greatest modern Chinese writer, and the China of the past.

This short book can be read memory by memory, in the language you are learning.

The plot

A Chinese writer remembers his childhood. Behind the house lies a big wild garden. The boy listens to the crickets there and looks for roots that, they say, are shaped like a man.

The world of the book

An old-fashioned school in China. The book is set mostly in Shaoxing, a city in southeastern China, in the days of the last emperors. One day, the family sends the boy to the strictest school in town, to an old and…

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