"The Grass House" tells a touching childhood story that happened in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River in the early 1960s. The innocent feelings between boys and girls, the sadness and elegance of unfortunate teenagers struggling in bad luck, the profound and beautiful understanding of life in the experience of death, and the complex and poetic emotional entanglements between adults.
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Since the publication of 1997, The Grass House has been selling well. Each version has been printed nearly 300 times and translated into English, French, Japanese and Korean.
After the publication of Straw House, it won the Bingxin Children's Literature Award, the 4th National Excellent Children's Literature Award of Chinese Writers Association and the 4th National Book Award, and was selected as one of the "100 Children's Literature Classics in China". The film of the same name adapted from the novel also caused a sensation, and won the 19 Golden Rooster Award for Best Screenplay, 1998 China Film Observation Award, the 4th Cowboy Award and Film Critics Award, and the 14 Teheran International Film Festival Jury Special Award.