San Mao's works mainly involved history, love, science fiction, fantasy and other subjects. Among them, the most famous was The Story of the Sahara Desert. The Story of the Sahara Desert was one of San Mao's masterpieces. It described her hard life in the Sahara Desert and her love story with José. Through a woman's perspective, the novel shows the desolation of the desert, the culture and the relationship between man and nature. At the same time, it also reflects some drawbacks and contradictions of the society at that time. The work was widely translated into many languages and received widespread attention and praise from readers around the world.