Snuggling

Snuggling tells the story of the love between a twenty-four-year-old man and a thirty-two-year-old woman. On arriving at the remote snow-covered land of Yabulisi and realising that he has lost both his ID and his luggage, the young painter Luan Xiaotian meets a bar singer called Anfen, who decides to take care of him.They fall in love with each other, and forget all about worldly things such astheir social status, where they come from, and their age difference. They go out together to explore the snow-covered vastness beyond the resort, and make love in the open country under a starry sky. On a narrow and dim balcony at the resort they talk about the good and the bad in mankind, and tell each other the stories of their first encounter with love. Their romance is only a small part of the novel. The more you read, the closer you come to the origins of their pains and humiliations, and to the truth of their story. The trauma the boy went through when he entered puberty and had his first emission, the girl’s painful experience of her first period, as well as their strong adolescent impulse towards love, have triggered a series of critical misfortunes, including even a case of murder…