The Story of the Sahara is the most popular literary creation in Sanmao's works, including 12 wonderful and moving essays. After feeling the desolate and monotonous desert life, Sanmao wrote a series of stories set in the desert, which attracted a wide range of readers. The Story of the Sahara is her first collection of works, which was officially published in May 1976.

There are many beautiful sentences in the story of Sahara:

Man, it's strange that you can't see your own value without outsiders to prove you.

A free life, in my interpretation, is spiritual civilization.

Life, in such a lonely, backward and poor place, is thriving as always. This is not a struggle for existence. For desert residents, their birth, illness and death seem to be such a natural thing here. I watched the fireworks rising in Ran Ran, and found them almost elegant and serene.

This life is my first love, and this life is my lover! Every time I miss you, a grain of sand falls from the sky, forming the Sahara from now on!

He is priceless to those who know how to appreciate him, and worthless to those who don't.