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Epic novel has 4.5 million characters

NOVELIST Zhang Wei's latest epic "You Are on the Highland," possibly the longest Chinese-language novel ever with 4.5 million Chinese characters, has sold 500,000 copies since it was first published in March 2010.

"The novel's strong sales are not accidental and should be attributed to its quality," said He Jianming, head of Writers Publishing House, which published the novel.

The novel, comprising 10 volumes, took Zhang 22 years to finish and won a prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011. It deals with the social changes China has experienced in the last century through stories centered around characters born in the 1950s.

"This is my most complicated work," Zhang said when accepting the Mao Dun prize.



 

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