Publisher's Synopsis
一群想要摆脱困境的中国农村妇女，进城后，发生了意想不到的事情。小說以中国福建和福建东部的农村妇女郑金华为主线，讲述了她年轻时、婚后和"在城市工作"的经历，并描述了她悲惨的童年、屈辱的青春、艰难的婚姻和情感生活。同时，它描绘了许多农村妇女的命运。小说以郑芳梅去世的消息开头，引出了郑金华童年和青年故事的回忆，以及成年后为家庭生活而奋斗的过程。书中描述了她与爱人陈跃进、丈夫黄标富、小伙伴郑斌和家乡黄剑锋的情感纠葛。这本书反映了二十世纪末至二十一世纪初中国大陆农民在城市工作的现状，特别生动地描述了普通农村妇女的真实事件，并典型地揭示了这些妇女的情感世界。
A group of Chinese rural women who want to get rid of difficulties, after entering the city, something unexpected happened. It takes Zheng Jinhua, a rural woman in Fujian and eastern Fujian, as the main line. It tells about her experiences when she was young, after marriage and "working in the city," and describes her tragic childhood, humiliating youth, complex marriage, and emotional life. At the same time, it depicts the fate of 12 rural women.
The novel begins with the news of Zheng Fangmei's death, which leads to the memories of Zheng Jinhua's childhood and youth stories and the process of struggling for family life in adulthood. The book describes her emotional entanglement with her lover Chen Yuejin, her husband, Huang Biaofu, her little partner Zheng Bin and her hometown Huang Jianfeng. This book reflects the current situation of farmers in the Chinese Mainland working in cities from the end of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century, mainly vividly describing the actual events of ordinary rural women and typically revealing the emotional world of these women.
