THE CRY IN THE WILDERNESS is a collection of short stories by Xiao Hong. With her sharp and delicate artistic sensibility and simple and delicate style, Xiao Hong wrote about the isolation and desolation of the rural towns in Northeast China at that time. The characters she created are vivid and lovely, the style is bright and sad, and it is filled with melancholy and sentimentality. It is a masterpiece of poetic novel.