Elegy for the Dying Township centers on the shifts of the peri-urban fringe around Xianshui Pond. It portrays the little-known landscapes in southern Jiangsu and the entangled emotions of love, hatred, joy, and sorrow amid the tides of development. Separated by a pond – one side rural, the other urban – two families, each headed by a woman with the same name, along with several children of the same generation, form bonds that span decades.

Author: Su Tong

Publisher: Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing

Publication date: May 2025

Pages: 692

Price: 79 yuan

ISBN: 9787559495303