{"title":"Short Story Collection","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"野菩萨-9787530223239","title":"Wild Bodhisattva","description":"✨The selected collection of Li Zishu's short stories has been reprinted. The world is a new world, and this world is the other side of the secular world.\u003cbr\u003e ✨Specially included is the new short story \"The Sea\" \u003cbr\u003e——This was the first time in their lives that they sat together and watched the sea.\u003cbr\u003e ※Editor's Recommendation※\u003cbr\u003e \"Wild Bodhisattva\" is a collection of short stories by Malaysian Chinese writer Li Zishu.\u003cbr\u003e Twelve short stories, twelve densely-woven, gorgeous, whimsical and lively short songs of joy and sorrow.\u003cbr\u003e \"Life is so moist, infested with all sorts of inexplicable mushrooms, ferns, tumors, fungi, scars, mosses, mildews, and diseases.\"\u003cbr\u003e Bizarre imaginary fables and mottled and sticky love all flow under Li Zishu's pen, painting a fantastic and magnificent picture of the Nanyang world.\u003cbr\u003e In addition to classic works such as \"Northern Frontier,\" \"Wild Bodhisattva,\" and \"Let's Watch Ai Iijima Together,\" this edition also includes Li Zishu's new short story, \"The Sea.\" With just a few strokes, it explores the unspeakable jealousy and love between people.\u003cbr\u003e \"They lay there, holding hands, like they were backstroke on a calm sea.\"\u003cbr\u003e ※Recommended by famous experts※ \u003cbr\u003eWandering between realism and absurdity, between the boredom of daily life and bizarre imaginary adventures, between anger and pain, Li Zishu seems to be still searching for a style that allows her to express herself freely. She is not afraid of approaching the abyss of trauma and is willing to repeatedly take the risk of exploring the bottom of the abyss.\u003cbr\u003e ——Wang Dewei ※Author’s own words※\u003cbr\u003e My biggest dream is to let Chinese readers rediscover the joy of reading short stories, experience the literary power brought by short stories, and further understand Malaysian Chinese literature.\u003cbr\u003e ——Li Zishu","brand":"北京十月文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137006831,"sku":"9787530223239","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1gxebHWPdlVAq0DaASyJKTTnhjOwNsZIO.jpg?v=1734602758"},{"product_id":"夜行货车-9787510884238","title":"Night truck","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34937627\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/3KwVOpUUQMApB64QWXDflp\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe complete works of 20th-century literary giant Chen Yingzhen are published in mainland China for the first time. These stories offer a heartwarming and profound account of human love, a lament for the idealist's soul. \"Night Freight Train\" is a classic in Chen Yingzhen's \"Washington Building\" series. The Washington Building in Taipei in the 1980s hides the truth about our workplaces today, a microcosm of the fate of the modern city. Going to work is a huge deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Young people unable to return home are a prophecy of the times we live in. Which city truly represents our present-day existence? Well-fed, luxurious, vibrant, and happy, or one characterized by environmental collapse, human scars, and a lost culture? Every working person struggling in the city can find their own story in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Highly recommended by Pai Hsien-yung, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Zhu Tianxin, Dai Jinhua, Zhao Gang, and Xu Zhiyuan. \"Chen Yingzhen is my idol. He represents the intellectual's relentless critical spirit, refusing to compromise with the trends of the times; he is also imbued with a sense of the common man, caring deeply about the inner lives and destinies of ordinary people.\" (Xu Zhiyuan)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Going to work is a big scam.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Night Truck\" compiles six short and medium-length novels by Chen Yingzhen, written between 1967 and 1982, including \"Night Truck,\" \"A Day in the Life of an Office Worker,\" \"Cloud,\" and \"Emperor of All Merchants,\" as well as two novels on the Vietnam War. Focusing on the well-fed, corrupt, extravagant, dazzling, and happy \"backstreets\" of post-war Taiwan, the book reflects on environmental collapse, human scars, and the loss of cultural ground. Through the lens of Taipei's \"Washington Building\" in the 1980s, it depicts the alienated lives, suppressed dreams, humiliated dignity, and silently wounded hearts of people in an era of rapid economic development. Huang Jingxiong, who quit his job to pursue his film dream but was forced to work, Zhang Weijie, whose faith in capitalist civilization turned to disillusionment, Wen Xiuying, a female worker whose strike was suppressed, and Lin Dewang, a small-time employee at a multinational corporation who came from a poor background and was driven to mental illness by career setbacks... The stories of these \"determined to succeed\" office workers and these young people unable to return home speak to the prophecies of the times we live in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Night Truck\" leaves behind a capillary-like, vivid portrayal of Taiwan's rapidly changing times. Reading it today is as intimate as looking in the mirror, seeing the reflection of today's era and ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Celebrity Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Leo Ou-fan Lee (Professor of the Department of Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong) - Chen Yingzhen is one of the few \"master-level\" novelists in the history of Taiwanese literature. His works have long become classics. When I was teaching in the United States, I would always use his short stories when talking about Taiwanese literature: \"The General's Family\", \"My Brother Kangxiong\", \"Night Truck\", \"Washington Building\" series... These works have English translations, and American students are also moved by them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDai Jinhua (Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University) - Castro, John Berger, and Chen Yingzhen all held special places in the 20th century and in my own life. But their deaths don't directly impact me, but rather reminiscence, an echo of our mourning for that era. Their passing wasn't the end of a great era; that era had already ended before they left. They died after their own era had ended, and the future they called for is still far away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Zhu Tianxin (author) — Fortunately, our time has Chen Yingzhen. Twenty years ago and now, reading Wen Xiuying's diary in \"Cloud,\" I still can't help but sigh: How unreal, yet so moving!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Xu Zhiyuan (writer and founder of One Way Space)—Chen Yingzhen is my idol. He represents the intellectual's unceasing critical spirit, refusing to compromise with the trends of the times; he is also full of a sense of the common people, concerned with the hearts and destinies of ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"九州出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137268975,"sku":"9787510884238","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1sOXF9PieJrTn3zbM8RyJDjclk8ah9lrX.jpg?v=1734602774"},{"product_id":"将军族-9787510887390","title":"Generals","description":"【Editor's Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003eA must-read classic, ranked alongside \"Call to Arms\" and \"To Live\" among the top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century, this is the first complete collection of Chen Yingzhen's novels published in mainland China. A pioneering writer and an idol for intellectuals on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, he has been called the \"Lu Xun of Taiwan.\" His novels touch upon the human heart, \"constantly observing people, life, and labor from the perspective of the weak and the small.\" A classic Chinese novel that has been a hit in Taiwan for half a century, \"The General's Family\" includes beloved works such as \"The Noodle Stall,\" \"My Brother Kangxiong,\" \"Tang Qian's Comedy,\" and \"The First Job,\" many of which have been included in university Chinese language textbooks.\u003cbr\u003e The untold suffering and tears of ordinary people, their incredible love and courage. The missing, those struggling to survive, those imprisoned by their faith, the insulted and hurt. Literature helps the insulted regain their dignity. A couple operating a noodle stall on the streets of Taipei, drifting office workers, ordinary people bearing the scars of war and history, young people imprisoned by their faith... These tender and poignant ukiyo-e paintings, a collective portrait of the fates of ordinary people in the 20th century, tell the stories of each of us in the backstreets of our time. \u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended by Pai Hsien-yung, Chiang Hsun, Wang Anyi, Lü Zheng-hui, Wang Dewei, and Liang Wen-dao. \"The General's Family is a Taiwanese allegory. Chen Ying-zhen's writing speaks directly to the pain of the human heart.\" (Pai Hsien-yung) \"I've read My Brother Kang-xiong over a hundred times, and I cry every time.\" (Sanmao)\u003cbr\u003e ★ Includes a bonus volume titled \"Reading Chen Yingzhen,\" featuring essays by six renowned literary figures from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. These essays, by Pai Hsien-yung, Chiang Hsun, Wang Anyi, Lü Zhenghui, Lan Bozhou, and Liang Wendao, offer a glimpse into Chen Yingzhen's worldly landscape from the perspectives of literature, thought, and the individual and his era.\u003cbr\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003cbr\u003e \"In the next life. Then we'll all be as pure as babies.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The General's Family\" compiles 24 short and medium-length stories by Chen Yingzhen, written between 1959 and 1967. These include such beloved masterpieces as \"The Noodle Stall,\" \"My Brother Kangxiong,\" \"Tang Qian's Comedy,\" and \"The First Job.\" These stories depict the fates of ordinary people in the 20th century: Taipei night market vendors and sick children; the thin, pale anarchist Kangxiong; the rural teacher Wu Jinxiang, returning from the distant battlefield; the romantic and imaginative young man Lin Wuzhi under the apple tree; the tragic love story of the triangular-faced and skinny girl stranded in a foreign land; the intellectual \"trendsetter\" Tang Qian; and the nihilistic and world-weary \"seafarer\" Hu Xinbao. These twenty-four stories, brimming with tearful love and tender, painful sympathy, moving soul-searching confessions, and melancholic poetic lyricism, \"The General's Family\" is a series of elegy for the mundane world, leaving behind a lasting testimony to the lives of ordinary people and generating a profoundly moving power. This book has been selected as one of the top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e 【Expert Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003ePai Hsien-yung (author) — \"The General's Family\" is a Taiwanese allegory. Chen Yingzhen's writing speaks directly to the pain of the human heart. He possesses a special compassion for people, especially those who are vulnerable. This is his heart, and it is also the most moving aspect of his writing. Chen Yingzhen is a true artist, with his own beliefs and pursuits, and his own deep love. He and I have a mutual respect, both literary and spiritual.\u003cbr\u003e Jiang Xun (writer and painter) — One person who has influenced my reading is my teacher, Chen Yingzhen. Reading Chen Yingzhen's novels is truly an aesthetic experience. I think it's crucial to reread Chen Yingzhen today, in the 21st century, because today happens to be an era of fading dreams. \"My Brother Kangxiong,\" a novel he wrote in college, deeply moved me, a bit like Turgenev's \"Rudin\" and Goethe's \"The Sorrows of Young Werther.\" In fact, we all have dreams during adolescence. There were times when we didn't even believe in those dreams. \u003cbr\u003eWang Anyi (author and professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University) — All my efforts were actually preparation for meeting this person (Chen Yingzhen). My first encounter with him was in \"The General's Family.\" The novel tells the story of a man with a triangular face and a skinny girl, who were thrown together by fate and left to depend on each other. This story, with its profoundness and tenderness, touched my heart.\u003cbr\u003e Der-wei Wang (Professor of East Asian Studies at Harvard University) - Chen Yingzhen is Taiwan's most important literary creator of the past sixty years. His writing not only expresses potentially controversial political positions, but, on a larger scale, he uses this perspective to illustrate his personal legacy of an ideal China and an ideal Chinese nation, a utopian aspiration. The story itself is complex and moving. \u003cbr\u003eLü Zhenghui (Publisher, Renjian Publishing House, Taiwan) — Chen Yingzhen is the most deserving Taiwanese writer of the past half century to be called an \"intellectual.\" His journey as an intellectual is worthy of our attention. His path bears witness to a writer who faithfully sought to reflect his time and circumstances. If he failed, history bears some responsibility—in certain historical periods, being a faithful and outstanding writer was not easy.\u003cbr\u003e Sanmao (writer) - The first time I read novels in Bihui—Chen Yingzhen's \"My Brother Kangxiong\" and \"The General's Family\"—I was deeply moved. I realized how captivating literature can be. There are so many familiar souls in this world.\u003cbr\u003e Xu Fuguan (scholar) - Chen Yingzhen is \"the first person on both sides of the Taiwan Strait\" because he reveals the truth that the vast majority of Chinese people are rootless. The development of the structure of each of Chen Yingzhen's novels is a process of exploring human nature.","brand":"九州出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137367279,"sku":"9787510887390","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1Mhf9AG-V0I7IAvkDkQ7Zbpabq37Oi7OM.jpg?v=1734602777"},{"product_id":"赵南栋-9787510884214","title":"Zhao Nandong","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34937628\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/1EtH2Ai3ACmMVdZte9arDD\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A classic of 20th-century Chinese fiction, the complete works of Chen Yingzhen are published in mainland China for the first time. Human warmth, human bones, human courage. Walking through the backstreets of contemporary Taiwanese history, an intellectual writes about his own era: its most turbulent history, its most fervent dreams, its most demanding youth, and the whirlwind of life and death. \"Zhao Nandong\" includes seven short and medium-length works, including the beloved masterpieces \"Mountain Road,\" \"Bellflower,\" and \"Zhongxiao Park.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Liang Wendao's \"One Thousand and One Nights\" explores reading material, obliterated history, insulted and damaged souls, and the past and present lives of Taiwan's left-wing youth. How should one truly live? They once walked the dark night, sacrificed their lives for their beliefs, and ultimately left no name behind. \"I write these stories to show that the human spirit once reached such heights. Will a generation that died so brightly become just a tiny ripple in the cold, long history?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHighly recommended by Pai Hsien-yung, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lin Hwai-min, Yang Zhao, Lan Bozhou, and Xu Zhiyuan. \"That was my first encounter with Mr. Chen Yingzhen's work. With my face swollen and my eyes narrowed to slits, I cried as I read, then read again afterward... Rereading \"Mountain Road\" and \"Bellflower\" over the past few years still brings tears to my eyes. He has an unwavering love for the weak and marginalized, and a rage against the injustices of the world. He has moved us for so long.\" (Lin Hwai-min)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Please fight bravely.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Zhao Nandong\" compiles seven short and medium-length novels by Chen Yingzhen, written between 1983 and 2001, including the acclaimed works \"Bellflower,\" \"Mountain Road,\" and \"Zhongxiao Park.\" This period of writing primarily reflects on history, recounting the past and present of Taiwan's left-wing youth during the 20th century's \"most turbulent history, most fervent dreams, most demanding youth, and whirlwind of life and death.\" Traversing the dust of time, with tears in their eyes, and with a trembling soul, they listen to the storms, fires, and lightning of a bygone generation, confronting the history of the \"White Terror,\" which violence and rumors sought to obliterate. Gao Dongmao, a teacher in Yingzhen who was hunted down and became a \"savage\" in a cave; Cai Qianhui, a girl on the \"mountain road\" with a religious will to atone for her sins; Zhao Nandong, a descendant of the left-wing in prison who lives a decadent and nihilistic life; Yang Bin, a Taiwanese veteran in mainland China who finds it difficult to return home... Chen Yingzhen redeems all the voices and footprints that have been suppressed and erased by the times through his powerful writing, and gives new features and voices to those who have been insulted and harmed in the \"back streets\" of history, recreating their reality and ideals, weakness and nobility, despair and hope, and tempering the nobility of being human and the full weight of the word faith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeven novels split the thick fog that enveloped the entire 20th century, excavating the dark strata of history to illuminate the light of human divinity. This is the most authentic history and the most authentic poetry, shaping the spirit of Taiwan after a century of turmoil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Expert Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Lin Hwai-min (writer, founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre) — When I was sixteen, I had sinus surgery. A friend brought Chen Yingzhen's novels to visit me. That was my first introduction to his work. With my face swollen and my eyes narrowed to slits, I cried as I read, then reread them afterward... Rereading \"Mountain Road\" and \"Bellflower\" over the past few years still brings tears to my eyes. He had an undying love for the weak and marginalized, and a deep anger at the injustices of the world. He never shouted or accused, but always moved and inspired me with his uniquely gentle \"Chen Yingzhen voice.\" When I feel discouraged or feel I'm \"slipping into depravity,\" I return to reading Chen Yingzhen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiang Wendao (writer, media professional, and planner of Kanlixiang) - Chen Yingzhen's novels possess the tenderness, twists, and circuitousness of Japanese literature. His works are always filled with explorations of various values. He doesn't preach or indoctrinate readers, but rather stimulates constant reflection, doubt, and questioning. This is the critical spirit that a leftist should possess. Leftist love means loving those who have been insulted and hurt in society, those who have been silenced and forgotten in the corners of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Hou Hsiao-hsien (film director) — Chen Yingzhen's novels possess a unique energy, a moving power that directly impacts me through the medium of fiction. What is Chen Yingzhen's true meaning to us? I believe it comes down to his most fundamental and simple \"personality.\" I'd like to film his novels \"Bellflower,\" \"Backstreet,\" and \"The Noodle Stall.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Xu Zhiyuan (writer and founder of One Way Space)—Chen Yingzhen is my idol. He represents the intellectual's unceasing critical spirit, refusing to compromise with the trends of the times; he is also full of a sense of the common people, concerned with the hearts and destinies of ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"九州出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137465583,"sku":"9787510884214","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1_RjPb_7DcUqV73KEqZyHH15nco00RDm2.jpg?v=1734602779"},{"product_id":"破晓时分-9787555910893","title":"At dawn","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35451966\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/1fujAvoMacRJn1BpnoGIWA\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Listen to this chain: how many sins! how many evils! and how many grievances, groping in the darkness, sliding on the frost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"At Dawn\" is a collection of short stories by Taiwanese writer Zhu Xining, featuring thirteen classic short stories, published in mainland China for the first time. The characters expand from the heroic heroes of \"Iron Slurry\" to ordinary citizens, contrasting the rural legends of northern Taiwan with the urban charm of Taiwan. Ancient Greek tragedy evolves into the mundane daily life and inner battles of ordinary people, presenting a more profound and modern landscape. \"Spring Gone\" explores the lingering emotions of a silk weaver on a spring day, \"White Grave\" commemorates the fall of a hero, \"Grain Thief\" mourns the decline of integrity, and \"Also a Taste\" explores the stream-of-consciousness musings of a married man. \"Fucheng White Iron\" tells the story of a family of four, depicting the cage-like stagnation of urban life and the weariness of life. The short story of the same name, adapted from the Song Dynasty vernacular novel \"The Wrongful Execution of Cui Ning,\" directly explores the entanglement between man and the absurdity of fate. A shocking tragedy, it asks, \"How does the process of degeneration begin for each of us?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt dawn, the world is unforgiving, desire and regret, sin and guilt, intertwine and ebb, highlighting human existence, human desire, and human spirit. In \"At Dawn,\" the robust and tragic style of northern Chinese literature remains, while exploring a rich range of modernist narratives, initiating an experiment in Taiwanese modernist writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"河南文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137629423,"sku":"9787555910893","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1fixJZct-456z9FJtyCFHvGgq7HG84mqz.jpg?v=1734602782"},{"product_id":"海边的房间-9787555911630","title":"Seaside Room","description":"This representative collection of short stories by emerging Taiwanese novelist Huang Liqun features twelve broken people, twelve breathtakingly good stories. The novelist crafts elegant, refined Chinese with meticulously crafted compositions, neatly slicing the joys and sorrows of life, depicting the bleak world of urban misfits: an abandoned daughter and her adoptive father in an old apartment, a rural fortune teller and his ailing son, a sleepwalking otaku, a middle-aged woman living alone and her calico cat... The playful language, unexpectedly frozen endings, and meticulous observations of ordinary human life create a unique literary tension. Impermanence is often the most commonplace, and this tale of the world, written by an old soul with warmth and a touch of elegance, stirs the hearts and minds of ordinary people, the passions and sorrows of the frustrated, and the daily hardships and loneliness of our lives. \u003cbr\u003eHighlights★ Impermanence is often the most commonplace. This masterpiece by emerging Taiwanese novelist Huang Liqun, published in simplified Chinese for the first time, is a masterpiece. Winner of numerous Taiwanese literary awards, acclaimed by writers from across Taiwan and across generations, and highly anticipated on Douban, the highly anticipated Chinese-language novel \"Room by the Sea\" arrives this summer. Huang Liqun is a representative figure of Taiwan's emerging generation of novelists. Her short story collection \"Room by the Sea\" has won numerous Chinese-language awards, including the Times Literary Award, the United Daily News Literary Award, and the Lin Rongsan Literary Award. The film adaptation of the novel was selected for the Golden Horse Film Festival. This simplified Chinese edition, featuring three new stories hand-selected by the author, represents the culmination of over two decades of her writing career. \u003cbr\u003eA love fortuneteller, writing about the world from a seasoned soul, tinkering with the subtle mechanisms of fate—with a shrewd heart and a shrewd pen, novelist Huang Liqun crafts elegant and refined Chinese, delicately crafting stories that predict love and fate, neatly slicing the drama of human joy and sorrow. Her writing, warm and playful, yet cold and captivating, stirs the hearts and minds of ordinary people, the passions and sorrows of the frustrated, and the daily struggles and uncertainties of life. Be captivated by the masterful beauty of Chinese, and immerse yourself in Huang Liqun's formula for love.\u003cbr\u003e The world of urban misfits, twelve broken people, twelve breathtakingly good stories—a love song for the lonely, a place to settle in life's treacherous journey. \"I write about all sorts of unpleasantness, fragmentedness, withering, and ruin—those little flaws in life that I can't help but repeatedly touch. If a person can't find a comfortable place in society, they must deceive themselves, and long-term self-deception will only lead to their destruction.\" The playful language and unexpected, frozen reversals of endings create the unique literary tension of Huang Liqun's works. \u003cbr\u003e\"It's been a long time since I've reached such a fever pitch while reading, feeling my skin burn.\" Writers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, including Guo Qiangsheng, Luo Yijun, Ke Yufen, Zhang Yiwei, and Qi Jinnian, raved about her. -- \"She possesses a splendid and elegant talent, yet within that beauty lies a subtle chill. Huang Liqun's writing is as warm as the sun, as swift as wind and rain. On a quiet, sunny afternoon, I still feel the warmth and joy of peaceful times, but in the blink of an eye, dark clouds appear from nowhere, and heavy rain falls.\" \u003cbr\u003e◎ Comments and Recommendations: Writing possesses an innate nobility. Her stories are like the inconceivable, graceful movements of amoebas under a microscope. — Luo Yijun Liqun is just like this, possessing a splendid and elegant talent, yet within that beauty lies a subtle chill. Her writing is as warm as the sun and as swift as the wind and rain. On a quiet, sunny afternoon, one still feels the warmth and joy of peaceful times, but suddenly, dark clouds appear out of nowhere and the rain pours down. — Ke Yufen Liqun's novels invite us to hear another kind of \"why not?\" question: Why can't pure love be hard to swallow? Why can't despair be boring and trivial? Her novels reveal a leisurely pace, a reluctance to seek novelty, a reluctance to overthink things, and instead cultivate a unique theme: beautiful fragmentation. There aren't many novels worth anticipating, but I've finally gotten this one. — Guo Qiangsheng It's been a long time since I've felt this way: facing a book, slowly reading word by word, afraid to finish it, reluctant to read too fast; reaching a boiling point, nearly burning my fingertips as I touch the pages. I was astonished to discover such a brilliant novelist—Huang Liqun's \"Room by the Sea\" is a collection of novels that truly defines what a masterpiece is. Qi Jinnian: a shrewd mind, a shrewd pen, and a self-satisfied person. Fu Yue'an's writing is exquisitely sharp, its structure clear and layered, astonishing. I've never seen female jealousy portrayed so profoundly and so deeply. Ji Ji: Reality is most unpredictable, yet the characters themselves yearn for a normal life; the dialectic between impermanence and normality is the main theme of Huang Liqun's latest collection of novels. \"Oh, you're here too?\" Zhang Ailing asked. Where? In the investment market, like Huang Liqun's kind face, donning the vest of regulating the rhythm of time, tightening it a little, then a little, and joining her in her obsession with the formulas she loves. Ji Dawei: Huang Liqun's \"Tasting the Dish\" explores the complex connotations of maternal love through a small incision. In Taiwan, Huang Liqun has a vast readership, not just because she has won four of the island's three major newspaper literary awards in five years, but also because she captures the turbulent life she depicts through her writing, restoring the story to its true essence, neatly and cleanly, a play of tragedy and comedy for the reader. The first work of hers I read was the short story \"Bosuanzi,\" about AIDS. A sick son cares for his adoptive father, a game of rock-paper-scissors between illness and aging. The novel is written with a calm and composed demeanor, layering down the typical lows, neither fighting nor fleeing. To put it in a trendy way, the ultimate emptiness of life is like an unfinished chess game stagnating within the family. It's a tricky subject, but there's a moving line in the text: Huang Liqun writes, \"Impermanence is often the most ordinary.\" —Zhang Yiwei: The most original aspect of Huang Liqun's most celebrated short story, \"The Room by the Sea,\" lies not in the violence, sensuality, or even the ethical dramas so commonplace in social news and film and television dramas, but in the author's attempt to capture a certain \"uncanny self-evident quality.\" Thus, the absurdity of reality, so often spoken of by us, is transformed into the \"natural order\" of the human world by the novelist. —Zhang Dinghao: This author isn't wielding a pen, but a knife. —Douban netizen Zhinuan: \"I felt the same surprise I felt when I first read A Yi's \"Bird, Saw Me,\" but I discovered a different theme.\" \"Abnormal love\" may be the most striking theme in Huang Liqun's short stories, but she goes far beyond that. With a sophisticated plot and a casual style, she seemingly understates but in fact deeply explores numerous \"possibilities,\" loneliness, emptiness, waiting, and even the absurdity and black humor of ordinary life. There are some echoes of McEwan's early years, particularly in \"First Love, Last Rites.\" ——Douban user MagicDon","brand":"河南文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137694959,"sku":"9787555911630","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1lxJCZPY0GcA6teAYefsQsxVsH7fsy3UY.jpg?v=1738966495"},{"product_id":"寺内-9787020135394","title":"Temple","description":"Fourteen novel and colorful short and medium-length novels fuse imagination and poetry, classicism and modernity. Some are new spins of stories, such as \"Inside the Temple\" and \"New Year's Eve\"; some depict the people and events of modern Hong Kong, such as \"Opposition,\" \"Chain,\" \"Quarrel,\" \"Mr. and Mrs. Hertz,\" \"Dragon Beard Candy and Hot Sugarcane,\" and \"Holy Water\"; and some explore the philosophy of life, such as \"Cockroach\"...\u003cbr\u003e This collection of classic novels, compiled in 1977, is full of creativity and excellence in every chapter. Its stylistic experiments in seeking novelty and difference demonstrate the cutting-edge and spirit of modern novels. It still amazes people today and makes them sigh after reading it: It turns out that novels can be written like this!\u003cbr\u003e 【Excerpts from the Golden Quotes】\u003cbr\u003e  An unfinished dream must be nurtured with love, the boldness of the feudal era, and the secrets of a young girl.\u003cbr\u003e Waiting for the flowers to bloom is painful.\u003cbr\u003e It’s not that the flowers aren’t charming, but the waiting is too unbearable.\u003cbr\u003e  Melancholy is planted in the soil of the dreamland, and melancholy is the seed of happiness.\u003cbr\u003e  Is the purpose of God creating life to prove death? \u003cbr\u003eLife is so fragile, as brittle as a piece of glass. In that instant, perhaps one thousandth of a second, one ten-thousandth of a second, or one hundred-thousandth of a second, in short, a very short moment, the boundary between life and death is clearly drawn.\u003cbr\u003e He thought of a line from T. S. Eliot. He couldn't recall the poem, but he remembered that Eliot had said in it: \"The world will not end with a bang, it will end with a sob.\"","brand":"人民文学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085138972911,"sku":"9787020135394","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1zGbchJ3b6qb5T4wTFdvILpby5BqmkLD6.jpg?v=1738966414"},{"product_id":"平原上的摩西-9787547737941","title":"Moses on the Plain","description":"\"Moses on the Plain\" is the magnum opus of novelist Shuang Xuetao, a collection of ten strikingly stylish short and medium-length stories, with the title work being the most classic. On Christmas Eve 1995 on Yanfen Street, a mystery hidden by heavy snow, a missed appointment, and a heart born in one's hand... Those banished by fate, they are the downtrodden, slipping from the gears of time, yet also the messengers, bearing the secrets of sin and punishment. Only mortal love and faith can part the waves of Yanfen Street and carve a path to redemption. Ten contemporary short story masterpieces, hidden beneath the surface of ice, wash away the dust, press down fate, and deliver souls to a rarely visited temple.\u003cbr\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003e★ Novelist Shuang Xuetao's masterpiece, \"Moses on the Plain,\" returns in a new edition—an internationally acclaimed Chinese classic and a popular IP for film and television adaptations by the original author of the film \"Assassination of Novelist,\" with copyrights exported to multiple languages ​​including English, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. Novelist Shuang Xuetao has won numerous awards, including the inaugural Chinese Film Novel Award, the One Way Street Bookstore Literary Award for \"Young Writer of the Year,\" and the third Blancpain Ideal Country Literary Award. Many of his works are being adapted into film and television. Loved by Yi Yangqianxi, Lei Jiayin, and Dong Zijian, it received a lengthy review from Harvard University professor David Wang, and was highly recommended by writers Zhang Yueran and Li Jingrui, who stated, \"This is a work that our generation can truly leave behind.\" \u003cbr\u003e★ Only love and faith can pave the way to redemption. The 2021 film of the same name, starring Zhou Dongyu and Liu Haoran, will be released, portraying the \"Light of Moses\" of ordinary people - a brain-burning original work suitable for script-killing, a difficult-to-solve suspense novel puzzle: Christmas Eve on Yanfen Street in 1995, a mystery hidden by heavy snow, a missed appointment, a heart born in the hand... A fireball fell from the sky, and the innocent promise of the two teenagers triggered an unpredictable series of storms, and the fate of everyone changed abruptly. \"As long as the thoughts in your heart are true, as long as the thoughts in your heart are sincere, the mountains and the sea will make way for you.\" This energetic novel written with a sense of life is icy, romantic and innocent. Diao Yinan, director of \"Black Coal, Thin Ice\", is the producer of this blockbuster new drama, iQiyi's annual blockbuster series of the same name. \u003cbr\u003eShuang Xuetao's Yanfen Street, ten contemporary short story masterpieces hidden beneath the ice—a chilly fin-de-siècle northern landscape, depicting people lost from the gears of time: the factory scoundrel Old Ma, a father playing chess in his school uniform, my friend Andrei, the lame man on the train, the wandering poet Lao Xiao, a monk returning from prison, a girl missing in Leningrad... Yanfen Street's maze of stories depicts the struggle between good and evil, and those banished by fate, burdened with the secrets of sin and punishment, journey to report the truth. Through layers of violence and absurdity, Shuang Xuetao, with rare passion and deep emotion, salvages justice and honor for a lost world, carving a path of faith and love deep within time.\u003cbr\u003e ★ The brand new collector's edition, long awaited, Moses returns, designed by the famous book cover designer Lu Zhichang - simple and elegant, classic texture, the blue mud-colored wild pottery paper imported from Japan presents the touch of earth dust, the hot stamping process is elegant and timeless, perfectly interpreting the \"Light of Moses\", with blood on the tip of the pen and warmth in the cold.","brand":"北京日报出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139005679,"sku":"9787547737941","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1XwtY1wE9rBQqp340mzL2AbT2Un7XXN7M.jpg?v=1734602811"},{"product_id":"飞行家-9787549599349","title":"Aviator","description":"1. The most anticipated original Chinese novel of 2017—here you'll find the ingenious concepts of Haruki Murakami, the humorous tone of Wang Xiaobo, and the northern stories of Shuang Xuetao. Using sharp language to paint rich images, each story is uniquely structured, and his playful and humorous tone confronts heaviness and pain. Shuang Xuetao's works bear the shadows of Murakami, Wang Xiaobo, and many modern Western novels. Furthermore, \"The Aviator\" weaves realism with legend, fairy tale, and allegory, vividly depicting the hardships of survival, the plight of humanity, and the perils of fate. The complex tensions between history and humanity are woven into the fabric of the story. \u003cbr\u003e2. Leaving a fictional record for those who have been insulted and harmed, for precious moments in humanity—tenderness amidst the bitter cold, light amidst darkness, hope amidst despair, and nobility amidst the humble. \"The Aviator\" resonates with Shuang Xuetao's signature themes: bloody violence, the decline of the North, and the insignificance of marginalized people. Here, there are failed novelists, unjustly murdered factory owners, daydreaming workers, down-and-out writers, and abandoned children, women, and husbands... But it also carries a message of love, dreams, morality, dignity, and the bright side of humanity, sparking tiny yet precious flames amidst the iron curtain of snow in the north. \"Leaving a fictional record for those who have been insulted and harmed in my hometown\"—this is the starting point. The author's romantic and magical writing style is rich with metaphors, symbols, and a reflection on reality. \u003cbr\u003e3. A young novelist with the greatest potential for mastery in contemporary China, Shuang Xuetao has created a \"new aesthetic principle\"—a man born for storytelling, a novelist of the purest kind. As a young writer \"raised under the influence of Western and avant-garde fiction,\" Shuang Xuetao has forged his own unique creative style and aesthetic principles. In the realm of storytelling, he refuses to be a mouthpiece for imported literary works, transcending his obsession with grand historical themes and the presentation of empty everyday scenes. He imbues ordinary life with meaning, allowing love, dreams, dignity, and freedom to be reborn in humble and desperate situations. His strikingly modern expression and the depth and intensity of his themes define his unique position in the contemporary Chinese novel world, demonstrating his undeniable masterful potential.\u003cbr\u003e \"The Aviator\" contains a total of nine short stories by Shuang Xuetao.\u003cbr\u003e Origin - leaving a fictitious record for those people from the hometown who were insulted and harmed;\u003cbr\u003e Sedimentation – weaving the complex tension between history and human nature into the texture of the story;\u003cbr\u003e Taking root - let love, dreams, dignity and freedom be reborn in humility and despair. \u003cbr\u003eThe stories mostly take place in declining northern cities: Yanfen Street, Shadow Lake, Guangming Hall, Red Flag Square, Chunfeng Dance Hall, Red Star Billiards Club... these places are filled with dilapidated streets, abandoned factories, and all kinds of people.\u003cbr\u003e Most of the characters in this story are from forgotten marginalized groups. Jiuzang, Xiaojuzi, the madman Liao Chenghu, the \"juvenile delinquent\" Liu Ding, Gu Niao'er, the trainer Ruan Ling, the \"crazy horse\" Ma Feng, the \"aviator\" Li Mingqi... They are fish washed ashore by the tide of history.\u003cbr\u003e In \"The Aviator\", it is such a group of people, in such places, that make the passion, dignity and freedom of ordinary people bloom into flames.","brand":"广西师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139038447,"sku":"9787549599349","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/15iGgmQmy7HUtoOqzZd_kcHz39TsOAgsU_a714b462-f997-4eb1-ac8f-eb169a823df1.jpg?v=1734602813"},{"product_id":"聋哑时代-9787559826329","title":"Deaf and dumb era","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34969942\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/530D7PWoDsNKC4O6hnd0nU\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"When I graduated from elementary school, it was the summer of 1997. Like every graduation since then, it was hot and dry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e From that moment on, I was ready for all the pain and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a small northeastern city in the late 1990s, that summer, when everything outside was undergoing drastic change, was a long, hazy poem for teenagers aged thirteen or fourteen. The story centers on a group of junior high students at No. 108 Middle School. Told through the perspective of the young \"I\" (Li Mo), the novel recounts seven poignant coming-of-age stories. Like Naipaul's \"Miguel Street,\" these characters are independent yet intertwined, creating an intertextual connection that connects the \"I\"'s own trajectory. The eccentric Liu Yida, the gifted youth Huo Jialin, the eccentric and precociously charming Anna, and Ai Xiaonan, always in a white shirt... At this moment of life's awakening to self-awareness, the power of the adult world manipulates these young people: monitored classrooms, dull textbooks, and snobbish and hostile teachers. Faced with this first encounter with the outside world, some fiercely resist, others perish and disappear, and many more grow silent. \"The Deaf and Dumb Age\" charts the spiritual growth of the 1980s generation. The industrial city covered with heavy snow and the families in trouble due to the wave of layoffs cast an indelible shadow on the inner world of the teenagers, and campus life always has a depressing and dark background of the times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Age of Deaf and Dumb\" is novelist Shuang Xuetao's self-healing work, like recounting past events in a tree hole, sealing it with mud, and cherishing it for the future. Unlike the sharp and cold style of \"Moses on the Plain,\" he uses a gentle tone, vibrant and sincere Chinese, and a loving and tender gaze to examine the dreams and scars of his youth, write a biography for those who have lived through the same experiences as himself, and tell the stories of those who lost their voices in the age of deaf and dumb. This novel was written at the age of 28, when he lived a double life: working at a bank during the day and writing at home at night. \"It was already summer when I finished it. I knew I could never write anything like this again. Maybe I had become a different person. From then on, I would live as a different person.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe final chapter of the 80s generation's youth awakens the pain of growing up. We return time and again to our youth, where we preserve the essence of life. In the late 1990s, in a small northeastern city, on the dark-hued campus of No. 108 Middle School, lies the story of seven fierce young men, a gentle and precipitous memory of youth, and a spiritual coming-of-age story for those born in the 80s. No other summer can compare to that one: the young men were silent, fierce, and passionate, their faces bearing the same expressions we once wore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This book, dedicated to the voiceless in a deaf-mute era, is our eyes and our ears. It tells the story of the pain and price of growing up, of those who have departed, of elusive loves, of childhood friends, of how the brilliance of youth fades and fades, of the compromise with the banality of reality, of how one grows up alone in an absurd world, surrendering the things he holds most dear one by one. This is the youth of a generation, and of all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNovelist Shuang Xuetao's self-healing work, now presented in its entirety in a new edition. This new edition restores the original, over a thousand words, preserving the novel's original form and presenting the work in its entirety for the first time. Unlike the harsh, hard-hitting \"Moses on the Plain,\" the novelist uses a gentle tone, vibrant and sincere Chinese, and a loving and tender gaze to examine the dreams and scars of youth, leaving behind a testament to the youth of his generation and telling the stories of those who remain silent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★A pioneering work of youth writing in Chinese novels, Shuang Xuetao's story of youth has a Salinger-like spirit of rebellion and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Different from the familiar narratives of the post-80s youth, the novel uses a sharp pen to reveal the cruelty of the world behind the warmth of youth; it uses the eyes of a teenager to explore the light and dark of human nature, and writes about the eternal search for freedom and self between the individual and the world; it uses a vivid biography of Northeastern teenagers to interweave the youth and destiny of a generation under the shadow of the times, forming its own unique aesthetic style and historical depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"广西师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139071215,"sku":"9787559826329","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1y89y4ig9GsO2JH1f5IsbE9sQYgMKmcD_1d0a4a09-35fd-4bd0-9c82-b02760c67e99.jpg?v=1734602816"},{"product_id":"冬泳-9787532183661","title":"winter swimming","description":"Seven northern stories, seven wintering spirits: preserving human dignity in the extreme cold. \"Winter Swimming\" is the debut novel and representative work of young writer Ban Yu. \"Winter Swimming\" collects seven of Ban Yu's stories. Along the edges of railroad tracks, fortifications, and heavy snow, wander figures of the past: printing factory workers, crane operators, unfamiliar gamblers, and the unemployed... Their lives are passive, facing threats and embarrassment, accustomed to silence, like a peak or a breeze, a distant and isolated existence.\u003cbr\u003e The north is bitterly cold, yet within these individuals lies a hidden warmth and light. Some \"leap into the air, emerging from the cleaving wind,\" while others \"kneel on the ground, letting out thunderous cries.\" The warmth and light of these individuals will eventually pierce the ice, illuminate the darkness, and carve a warm memory for the north of today.","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139136751,"sku":"9787532183661","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/12W4FZmqIQpwm0u0oszB2yPMaHwe3AEVi.jpg?v=1734602821"},{"product_id":"逍遥游-9787531357759","title":"Happy Journey","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34940823\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/1ZVoX1DUgQrJaJLKFkaMTl\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★Ban Yu’s latest work after “Winter Swimming”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This collection of seven short and medium-length stories, each distinct and deeply exploratory, presents a broader literary landscape: a dry, cold wind, the earth and dust in the air, fleeting light, gushing springs, a raging underground fire, nonexistent texts, the drowned, the lost... Characters and stories intertwine, dreams and metaphors unfold endlessly, and everything becomes blurred, like a landscape shrouded in mist. Like a survivor of the Dark Ages, Ban Yu steals fire, explores original sin, and navigates through the chaos and unspeakable predicaments of life, igniting them all to create wondrous moments of oracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★All incarnations and reflections are your and my names.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA down-and-out novelist, a man raising ants, a sick girl, a lover chasing a comet, a father lost in time... These adventurers of fate and life dwell in thunder, wade into the clouds, and walk by candlelight at night, illuminating the mountains, sea, and wind. The novel of the same name, \"Xiao Yao You,\" topped the short story rankings of the \"Harvest\" literature magazine and received a lengthy praise from writer Li Tuo: \"He presents before us a deeply ambiguous, pristine life. 'Xiao Yao You' reminds me of Yasujiro Ozu.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★Give support to the weak and continue the dreams of the humble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In the midst of this vast cold, how can we maintain our dignity? After life's knockdown, what can still ignite the faint flame within us? They are small, fragile, almost inaudible, yet also upright, resilient, and omnipresent. The marks of those arduous struggles during these great times, those unbreakable vows, those magical moments that leave us lost in a trance. \"Xiao Yao You\" captures the human yearning for freedom in this mundane world, the true nature of our lives slowly emerging after the glories have faded.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e★ Create an \"escape space\" in the chaotic daily life and present the unspeakable reality in a magical way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The North is not the past, but the future. These seven novels, like time crystals, reflect a rich tapestry of facets, imbued with avant-garde meaning and experimental spirit. They reach reality through fiction, maintaining a delicate balance between the two. Amid the roar of life, we escape on the train of his novels to another time and space, where there are distant evening stars, the lush green of failure, as well as bright tenderness and loneliness. We journey through mountains and forests, embrace the seasons, and pass by rivers. If we look up, we can see the stars following us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e -------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Xiao Yao You,\" Ban Yu's second collection of novels following \"Winter Swimming,\" features seven short and medium-length stories of distinct styles, spanning a thirty-year timeline, presenting a broader and richer picture. A down-and-out novelist, a man raising ants, a sick girl, a lover chasing a comet, a father lost in time... They are trapped in a thick fog, caught in the waning light, yet always trying to clumsily dance. These stories are imbued with the pain and scars of social change, depicting our true cowardice, longing, distress, and struggle between brilliance and darkness, hope and despair. A drowning person seeks to reach shore for air, a lost person awaits a clear night. The darkness of night is not always bottomless, for if we choose to look up, we can see the stars following us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBan Yu's masterful narrative penetrates the fabric of everyday life, creating tranquil moments of soaring amidst chaos, creating a refreshing narrative tone: a narrative that mirrors the harsh, cold, and poetic nature of northern China. All the mundane and painful becomes crystal clear, vast and profound in his writing. We too, hear the sobs hidden by history and daily life, and pause for a moment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"春风文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139202287,"sku":"9787531357759","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/14V5OjiwhAhCCCHzzPkyDbwmrX44NEhXv_f4f490c0-7448-431f-bd61-75793e0c617d.jpg?v=1734602824"},{"product_id":"缓步-9787532183654","title":"Slow Walk","description":"\"Slow Walk\" compiles nine novels written by Ban Yu in recent years. The author and his characters stand together, journeying together as companions, through weakness, loneliness, fear, and hardship, yet never stopping. Sharing a vision of rebuilding their lives, they slowly advance across the fields and mountains of life, \"believing that it's not too late, that there will be another summer.\" \u003cbr\u003eThe ever-rising underground ice rink, the swimming white unicorn, the visitor who passes through the night and storm, the father who raises his daughter alone, the future poet of the 1980s... These novels thoroughly respond to today's reality with different narrative methods, writing about everyone's entanglement, confusion and pain, and trying to give them the imagination of conquest and transcendence - using the finite to fight the infinite, interpreting existence with action, awakening the eternal silence with inexhaustible noise, and crossing the unknown with firm belief, \"there is no beginning, no end, only an endless middle, and the only way is to move forward.\"","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139235055,"sku":"9787532183654","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/11blGAdhbisXZLUYo-GGOhreUlJ6sNhbY.jpg?v=1734602826"},{"product_id":"仙症-9787547738207","title":"Immortal Syndrome","description":"\u003cp\u003eA mental patient who imagines himself having served in a submarine, a lonely bird scarer at Shenyang Airport, a poor man's paradise, alcoholism, night, a traveler's wanderings, a boy's long farewell to his father... In the northern cities at the turn of the century, the characters are always lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is Zheng Zhi's new work after winning the first prize of the 2018 \"Koi Anonymous Writer Program\" and the first \"Zhongshan Star\" Annual Youth Excellent Work Award in 2019 for his short story \"Xianzheng\". It includes \"Xianzheng\", which Su Tong praised for \"contributing a new character image\", \"Monte Carlo Cannibalism\", published in the 2019 \"Youth Writers Fiction Album\" of \"Shouhuo\", and six other short stories, including the new novella \"Forest in the Forest\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mixture of magical stories and detective novel elements, strong regional colors, and special forms of daily life are told with the conciseness of spoken language and a humorous tone, narrating a boy's escape from and return to his own destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"北京日报出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139267823,"sku":"9787547738207","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1McYeEUzCrRPP0hMuSVe1fBsOxPrqbsCw.jpg?v=1734602829"},{"product_id":"冷水坑-9787500175827","title":"Lengshuikeng","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/36624404\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/05WbKaq1C1SgReJrxuGasw\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Cold Water Pit\" is Kinte's first published collection of novels, which includes four novels he wrote since 2015: \"Cold Water Pit\", \"Winter People: Selected Chapters\", \"Snowstorm\" and \"Crime and Love\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Cold Water Pit\": The Lengshuikeng mining area is declining. Hearing that government compensation funds have been siphoned off, Duan Tiema, the son of a miner, rides out late at night to intercept them. Along the way, he traverses mountains, forests, and rivers, encountering people and confronting ghosts. The memories of Lengshuikeng's past and the resentment of the present entangle the living and the dead, while its future lies beyond the vast, cold winds of the wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Winter Citizens: Prologue\" is excerpted from Gint's unfinished novel, \"Winter Citizens\": He is a \"superfluous man\" in Dongzhou, a \"spirited young man,\" and a drunkard. Unable to comply with his father's arrangement to enter the system, he neither resists nor cooperates, indulging in a mystical self-destruction. One day, he encounters a laid-off worker and taxi driver. In the heat of alcohol, he unwittingly becomes embroiled in the taxi driver's spiritual dilemma and life tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Snowstorm\" tells the story of a woman searching for her husband in a snowstorm and encountering various characters. The snowstorm tears down the barriers between people and then solidifies them again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Crime and Love\" depicts a day in the life of a married couple. The husband, a young section chief at the Municipal Planning Bureau, is a contemplative man who hopes to master the proper use of power and establish a healthy labor order through his intellectual labor. However, he feels out of place at his workplace, earning the nickname \"the Don Quixote of the bureaucracy.\" Despite his pretentious demeanor, he is ultimately manipulated by the system. The wife, an assistant lawyer, takes on a case involving a suspected novelist. As she delve deeper into the case, she gains a new understanding of herself, her relationship with her husband, and her relationship with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Although the four novels are independent of each other, they are secretly connected by a thread. Although the miners' lamps in the cold water pit have been extinguished, the underground fire still surges and rushes beneath the land of Dongzhou, erupting through the distorted souls and transforming into endless wild words and delirium.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"中译出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085139497199,"sku":"9787500175827","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1Swy-ujNQwr8wD9otl5a9arLhWws72xmq.jpg?v=1734602834"},{"product_id":"夜晚的潜水艇-9787542669964","title":"Submarine at night","description":"★ \"Asia Weekly\" Top Ten Novels of 2020★ Douban Reading 2020 Chinese Literature (Novel) Top 1 \u003cbr\u003e★ First Prize Winner of the 2021 Blancpain Ideal Country Literary Award★ 2020 One Way Street Bookstore Literary Award Annual Work★ First Prize Winner of the First PageOne Literary Award It's like birds perching on trees and fish diving into the deep sea, everything is safe and peaceful, and the night has truly fallen.\u003cbr\u003e \"Submarine at Night\" is Chen Chuncheng's debut collection of novels. Nine stories, traversing ancient mountains and rivers and the unknown universe, traverse secret passages between reality and fantasy with magnificent, ethereal imagination and a gentle, tranquil writing style: a young man wandering the seabed, an ancient monument lost in the mountains, words permeating everything, a cloud-trimming station, swordsmithing and winemaking, a saxophone beneath the Iron Curtain, a concert hall within a blue whale... These stories are about hiding and seeking, pursuit and escape, a touch of certainty amidst the uncertainty, a small ray of coolness between the scorching sun and the abyss. Chen Chuncheng's fictional world is a cave to hide in, a palace suspended on paper, a submarine sailing into the past.\u003cbr\u003e 【Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003eI really enjoyed \"Submarine at Night.\" Chen Chuncheng was a pleasant surprise. In the NBA, they describe promising young players as \"the sky's the limit,\" and that applies to Chen Chuncheng as well. His strength lies in his ability to be both elegant and grounded, with a rich imagination and a solid grasp of reality. His transitions and connections are exceptional, creating a sophisticated work. I think he's a writer with a promising future.\u003cbr\u003e ——Yu Hua (writer)\u003cbr\u003e Reading Chen Chuncheng's novels, one senses the author's meticulous thought process, which is why his stories flow so smoothly and are so engaging. His language is refined to perfection, a true mastery beyond compare. He is destined to be a remarkable novelist.\u003cbr\u003e ——A Yi (writer)\u003cbr\u003e Chen Chuncheng is a garden at dusk, every word worth scrutinizing, every word about to be missed. I believe the legend: \"I was given a colored pen in a dream, wishing to write on flowers and leaves to send to the morning clouds.\" There is an ancient order of writing circulating in the dark, and only when it appears can I point it out to you: Look, this is it.\u003cbr\u003e ——Jia Xingjia (writer) \u003cbr\u003eWhen I first read \"Chopping Clouds\" and \"Bamboo Peak Temple,\" I was struck by how brief yet captivating the author's writing, each chapter imbued with a sense of wonder and splendor. Only after completing the entire book did I realize that it was merely a glimpse of a rising eaves amidst a lush bamboo forest. These nine novels are like nine profound palaces, their doors ajar and serenely deserted. But as you step sideways and slowly inside, you'll soon be greeted by a dazzling array of unique layouts, ingenious components, and dazzling details. I'm grateful to the author for single-handedly constructing these wondrous and profound palaces, allowing us to glimpse the countless breathtaking and wondrous scenes within.\u003cbr\u003e ——Dongdong Gun (writer)\u003cbr\u003e Every piece of Chen Chuncheng's writing, even every page and paragraph, exudes a strange, ethereal quality, drawing us into a state of limbo. His meticulous prose conceals enduring emotions, stirring my memory and senses. After reading each piece, I'm left me mesmerized for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e ——Lu Qingyi (Director) \u003cbr\u003eChen Chuncheng's novels are stunning, with superb language and a holistic, critical, and yet carnivalesque imagination. Most remarkable of all, he manages to make even the most absurd narratives effortlessly believable, a rare feat. He has a poignant perspective on his own life, expressed with exquisite soaring grace.\u003cbr\u003e ——Li Jing (critic)\u003cbr\u003e Chen Chuncheng stands out as a distinctive figure among the post-90s generation of writers. His depictions of the abandoned garden combine the classical homeland of Wang Zengqi with the modern labyrinth of Borges. But a thorough reading of his works reveals a far richer story. He transcends the self-contained stage, immediately taking the universe as his subject, transcending common sense and allowing his imagination to soar. Each novel is distinct, yet themes are constantly evolving. In an era dominated by crude pens, he defies the norm, retreating to a \"deep mountain telegraph station\" to study the myriad things, a study he both pursues and explores without ulterior motives. His brushwork is sophisticated, his words composed, his imagination unrestrained and vibrant, punctuated by a playful edge. He embodies the image of a mischievous old man, both deeply absorbed in his studies and a playful spirit. \u003cbr\u003e——Gu Jian (Editor of Selected Chinese Literature)\u003cbr\u003e \"Submarine at Night\" takes a unique approach, combining knowledge and life, sensibility and rationality, imagination and accuracy, with a penetrating and lingering quality and a strong sense of fantasy. With elegant and captivating language, the novel presents a new path for contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e ——Award Speech for the 4th Blancpain Utopia Literary Award","brand":"上海三联书店","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139529967,"sku":"9787542669964","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/176QtPePn3bmB9jbwm_FQWydK2ZrIb9z7_90fccb9f-ade1-40a3-aa49-dd764489193c.jpg?v=1738963995"},{"product_id":"寂静连绵的山脉-9787532183425","title":"Silent mountains","description":"Peng Jianbin's latest collection of novels.\u003cbr\u003e It describes the humble characters encountered in the wandering career of a salesman: their strong difficulties, confused struggles, meaningless yearnings, silent frustrations and endurance, and the young, confused love.\u003cbr\u003e A heartwarming and heart-breaking \"history of spiritual breakthrough\" about a tiny individual.\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003eThe eight short and medium-length novels collected in this book were mostly written by Peng Jianbin in the past two years. These stories primarily revolve around his career as a salesman from his early twenties to his thirties, with literature (reading and writing) and love as secondary themes. They depict the struggles and aspirations of young people entering society amidst adversity, their futile struggles in a foreign land both physical and spiritual, and their ultimate choice to endure in silence. In the author's writing, the hometown that holds childhood memories decays, while relatives, trapped in their fate, continue to wander in silence, toiling in despair. And then there are those insignificant lives struggling to make a living, their \"souls weary, their futures bleak, yet their faces perpetually wear animalistic smiles\"... \u003cbr\u003eWith a brutal sincerity and cool, detached language, the author salvages those ordinary yet precious lives from the emptiness of reality, endowing them with dignity within the world of literature. These works can also be seen as the author's spiritual autobiography, a heartwarming and heartbreaking \"history of spiritual breakthrough\" about the tiny individual that has survived in the cracks of the grand narratives of our time.\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e Peng Jianbin's novels possess a contradictory duality: on the one hand, they resolutely confront the realities of life, while on the other, they are fleeting and ethereal, like scattered feathers on the night breeze or a solitary stone rolling down a hillside. Through the sharp contrast between the real and the imaginary, the author embodies a Kafkaesque stubbornness, loneliness, and emptiness, as well as a needle-sharp exploration and questioning of life.\u003cbr\u003e ——Award Speech for the 17th Dianchi Literature Award\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003eI have read Peng Jianbin's works that seem more bizarre, more outrageous and more talented, but the one that impressed me the most is still the article \"Crystal\" in the book. It is for those who are looking for crystals in loneliness and hardship, and for those Salinger-style, crystal-like teenagers who do not want chaos.\u003cbr\u003e ——Li Jingrui\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e \"Hope You're Healthy and Not Afraid\" is such a wonderful piece! Only when two people meet would they take such painstaking effort to write a letter, a match made in heaven and yet come and go so effortlessly. In the age of WeChat, there will no longer be love letters like this.\u003cbr\u003e —— Zeng Jiahui\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e Peng Jianbin is the kind of author who, no matter what he writes, feels like writing his own spiritual autobiography. His self is not reflected in the content, but is very vividly reflected in the language, form and style.\u003cbr\u003e ——Hu Anyan\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e I feel like no one has written about the lives of our generation so realistically. Many of Peng Jianbin's novels are works of art, transcending the typical autobiography. Perhaps his work can be understood as a satire and love of life itself, regardless of era or state.\u003cbr\u003e ——He Pan","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085139759343,"sku":"9787532183425","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1ZmgOwUNuoX1V38iAHXs17XtU_Oo4xavt.jpg?v=1734602839"},{"product_id":"我去钱德勒威尔参加舞会-9787532178100","title":"I went to a dance at Chandlerville","description":"Peng Jianbin's representative novel is the most moving chapter in contemporary Chinese literature\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e Fourteen novels, close to the dust of life, touching the warmth of the skin, recalling the most subtle history, personal history, history of action, history of encounters, and history of separation, silence and those past events that accidentally broke the silence.\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e With dreamlike narrative techniques, and a patience and calmness beyond survival, he writes about the subtle feelings in life, the momentary uneasiness, the sudden trance, and the eternal hum...\u003cbr\u003e The wandering stranger finally reduced his physical and mental burden to silence.\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e This is a dreamlike victory for the Southern Chinese language of my dreams. The plot arrangements, the details I choose to expand upon, and the things I discard in these novels are all determined by language. Whether those fictional events might or might not have occurred in real life has never been a basis for whether I should or shouldn't write them that way. Language alone determines whether or not I should write. When I write novels, I'm essentially imagining a people who speak the language of literature and dreaming of them living a life of unparalleled linguistic superiority. (Peng Jianbin) \u003cbr\u003e*\u003cbr\u003e Peng Jianbin's novels are told in a unique style, making familiar things seem appealing. His writing is simple and intelligent, and his suspense is natural without being sensational. - Zhang Ming (Director)\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e In the world of literature, he seems intent on (or perhaps infatuated with) dissolving \"meaning,\" attempting to draw external, objective objects into the vortex of his mind, dissolving and digesting them, transforming them into a nonexistent yet unquestionable, eternal hum. Of course, this process is silent, a silent labor. I trust and envy this labor because the nothingness it presents is so pure. It can be said that nothingness manifests itself in Peng Jianbin's sentences, becoming one with them. —Jin Te [Novelist]\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003ePeng Jianbin's works, whether fiction or nonfiction, always seem to conceal a portrait of a sensitive, self-deprecating, and unyielding young writer. Similar portraits can be found in texts like Joyce or Camus, but Peng Jianbin's works are woven in Chinese, a Chinese that is unfashionable, pure, introspective, and noble. For this reason alone, his works are the finest of contemporary Chinese writing, and must be read and collected. —Wang Bang, Writer\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e In recent years, Peng Jianbin has been my favorite Chinese writer. Sometimes I can't bear to read his books, because I think even a manual he wrote would be very moving. —Xie Ding [writer]","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139824879,"sku":"9787532178100","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1NnFsBFRlSb9r1zKSGWuzmxvoUmtAfvNR.jpg?v=1734602841"},{"product_id":"不检点与倍缠绵书-9787532178094","title":"The Book of Improper and Double Affection","description":"Peng Jianbin's early work, which he abandoned but then picked up again, unexpectedly became a vintage wine that has been stored for more than ten years.\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e A book about living and writing in a foreign country——\u003cbr\u003e How does a young literary man run a business? How does a salesperson devote himself to writing?\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e An endless journey from reality to dream——\u003cbr\u003e Starting from the county station with a foul smell, I wasted my time on the winding mountain road and ended up lost in the magical reality of Guizhou.\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003eThe nonfiction book \"The Book of Improper and Double Affection\" chronicles my work, life, and love affairs during my time in Guizhou (2004-2006), a period of business travel. In an effort to position myself as a \"normal person,\" I deliberately avoided discussing my writing when writing this book. The dozen or so stories included in this book, however, were mostly written during my \"Guizhou period,\" thus filling this gap. In short, this is a book about my life and writing in Guizhou during my three years there. Even considering a few stories not written in Guizhou during that period, I need only make a simple correction: This is a book about my wanderings and writing in a foreign land. (Peng Jianbin)\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e Peng Jianbin's writings about his time in Guizhou remind me of Shen Congwen's \"Journey to Hunan,\" full of sentimentality and compassion. The life he describes feels like real life, and even those gloomy people and days are filled with light. —Li Weichuang [Critic]\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003ePeng Jianbin is a rare novelist who maintains a playful innocence in his writing. Like a teenager without playmates, he fiddles with the characters in his plays alone on the sofa. His reading horizons and life experiences define him as \"a writer who has seen the world and crossed the equator on a donkey.\" — Novelist\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e There's an omnipresent \"I\" in Peng Jianbin's novels, a \"I\" gazing, listening, chewing, translating and rewriting between truth and fiction... Like all masterpieces that touch me, when I read his books, the boundaries of genre, subject matter, and doctrines don't flash before my eyes. Instead, I simply follow a literary heart on its journey, observing how he endures the sorrow and anxiety that seem to emanate from the last day of his life, through every ordinary and trivial day and night. —Yuan Zi [author]","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139890415,"sku":"9787532178094","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1R8OMjSiDFTv59WwYdnG6vLIEGuWpqrJW.jpg?v=1734602844"},{"product_id":"樱桃青衣-9787567565333","title":"Cherry Tsing Yi","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/27081783\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/3wKmejYSqSBX74biwO7vIV\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Cherry green clothes mean listening to the time in your heart speaking, and banana leaves covering deer mean the essence of creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It does produce happiness, and it is indeed a short dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ===============================================\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Cherry Green Clothes\" is the final work in the \"Family Experiment\" writing project by young Shanghai writer Zhang Yiwei. 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Lu Zi, bewitched by fame and fortune, ultimately laments, \"The honor and disgrace, rise and fall, high and low in this world—all should be left to nature!\" But so-called nature also involves the unpleasant, day-to-day grind. \"Cherry Green Dress\" expresses the gap between dreams and reality, and also evokes the melancholy of the passage of time and the uncertainty of life and death. Alluding to the fact that even the \"common people\" can experience a \"feast,\" \"Cherry Green Dress\" captures the imagery of waking from a dream after experiencing prosperity, yet it also points to the truth of urban life, which neither allows for decline nor elevation. It also addresses the ordinary people, helplessly enslaved to the commercial world, the real estate stock market, and the dream of wealth, seeking to salvage a touch of genuine humanity from their endless selfishness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ====================================================\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Writing begins with confession, but confession exhausts itself. After the urge to confess is exhausted, a purer joy of creation quietly grows, and the time within begins to speak. It is a universe increasingly different from natural time. Every glance is a hidden card within the heart, looming and revealing. The past is like a flash of lightning, nothing counts, everything is shattered, yet it is captivating.\" (Zhang Yiwei)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"华东师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085140054255,"sku":"9787567565333","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1b_66esVVM1Pu3j9ZV-09DR8oraMas2_x.jpg?v=1734602849"},{"product_id":"空响炮-9787532165537","title":"Empty gun","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/30163040\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/6sNFDyltHa02bVSnxTpj49\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Empty Cannon\" is a story collection by Wang Zhanhei, a new writer born in the 1990s. It includes 8 short stories, describing the colorful little people on the street. 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The daily grind of snow and the heartbreaking past of mountains permeate almost every woman's life. \"Like Snow, Like Mountains\" is a metaphor for women's survival stories, told from a female perspective. \u003cbr\u003eWith his sensitive and observant mind and delicate and sharp brushstrokes, author Zhang Tianyi sorts out the growth history of a woman named \"Lili\" through the life sections of seven female protagonists: she may be Lili, the quiet female student sitting opposite you on the Spring Festival train, or Lili, who is suffering from postpartum depression and passing by you in the hospital with a baby in her arms, or Lili, the elderly mother who has lost her only child and lives next door to you... Their burdens and struggles reach the reality of existence in a thorough and strong way.\u003cbr\u003e All women hold within them a piece of the same puzzle; their hidden joys and sorrows, loves and hates, are so different yet so interconnected. In this book, we may find the answers to how to live, how to love, how to face ourselves when we toss and turn at night, and how not to lose courage when the future arrives.\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------\u003cbr\u003e ☆ Famous experts recommend Tianyi because it has this ability, which is to make those dark and embarrassing things have a halo, even a charming halo. \u003cbr\u003eRenowned literary critic Li Jingze's novel, \"Like Snow, Like Mountain,\" captures the burdens and struggles of modern women with exquisite detail, setting, and atmosphere. The novel's penetrating and weighty prose unyieldingly reaches the realities of existence, while conveying a deeply felt spiritual dilemma shared by women, resonating deeply with readers.\u003cbr\u003e — Renowned scholar Liang Yongan: In the literary world, Zhang Tianyi is like a fish: free, unfettered, and unrestrained. There's nothing he can't challenge, nothing he can't write about. This is truly surprising; for an author with a natural sense of boundaries, one can't help but harbor anticipation.\u003cbr\u003e — Renowned literary critic Zhang Li How should one live, how should one love, how should one face the sleepless nights, how should one not lose courage when the future arrives? This is Zhang Tianyi's answer.\u003cbr\u003e ——Famous writer Dian","brand":"人民文学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085140218095,"sku":"9787020166930","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1tbFbSQfPlWUFgWHFUagr3UX3VLN2e5ES.jpg?v=1738966580"},{"product_id":"迷路员-9787516830475","title":"Lost","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35512889\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/5U6WlTq8x0KVJYAefS08su\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"You look at your neighbors, all the same, clean, independent, and bright. Your history has been shattered, now scattered in a new history, displayed in a new history, for the little humans in this new history to discuss. You are on display like this. You can't see your old friends, the people who challenged you twice are not in this room... You can't just push aside your contemporaries and walk over to each other to talk again. If you are questioned again, will everything be in vain? How will you answer?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ This is the latest collection of Shen Dacheng's work, following his beloved \"Asteroid Falls in the Afternoon.\" With its whimsical conception and unique imagination, it tells the story of fifteen \"astronauts\" who have lost their way.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is the latest collection of works by author Shen Dacheng. Over the past few years, her work has resonated with many working professionals, who have discovered that these seemingly absurd stories often have parallels in reality. The story \"Miss Boxman,\" included in her previous work, \"Asteroid Falls in the Afternoon,\" even unexpectedly predicts a world where social distancing and vaccinations become the norm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The new work \"Lost Man\" focuses on the stories of fifteen \"aliens\" who have lost their navigation, once again presenting the unusual daily life of our time: a person who dozed off in the Starry Sky Theater and woke up to have insight into the mysteries of the universe, a small town department store that has long been abandoned but has always coexisted with the residents, the world's last mobile tribe of miniature giants, a former employee who has been hiding in the garden of an office building for several years, a pedestrian bridge that is not satisfied with being fixed in one place, and a warehouse attendant who is responsible for guarding Star Wars war preparedness supplies... These stories are not science fiction, alien, fantasy, or magical, but all focus on various existences in the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"We walk around without knowing what we are doing, but of course we have some idea of ​​what we are doing. It is not right to say that we do not have any identity. At least we are lost people. Being a lost person is like a job, and we have to do it seriously.\" The young clerk and writer Shen Dacheng thought in an orderly manner and wove carefully, and once again completed an extraordinary journey of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ Twice shortlisted for the Youth Literature Award. Recommended by writers Su Tong and Tang Nuo, \"I am a reader of Shen Dacheng.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Shen Dacheng has been shortlisted for the Blancpain Idealist Prize twice for her two collections of short stories, \"The One I Remember Often\" and \"Asteroid Falls in the Afternoon,\" earning recognition from numerous judges. Her work stands out among her contemporaries, capturing a distinctive and unique style. With her own unique whimsical vision, she depicts the realities of contemporary life and psychological dilemmas, caring deeply about the people and objects in this world, the only one we truly possess.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriter Su Tong believes that \"Lost Man\" possesses \"a relaxed, expansive, and boundless imagination.\" Writer and critic Tang Nuo handwrote a recommendation for the book, hundreds of words in length: \"...Shen Dacheng's imaginative writing is unpredictable, always telling magical stories with calm words, as Borges said. Miracles occur, but the people are real and substantial. Almost all the essential details of human life are preserved. Therefore, her writing constantly creates metaphors, giving us a feeling of constantly looking back. This real world may not be worthy of such attention, but ultimately, it is the only one we truly possess.\" \"I am a reader of Shen Dacheng.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Expert Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This time, Shen Dacheng's extraordinary imagination seemed to have taken several steps forward; perhaps, she seemed more at ease. She thought quietly and methodically, weaving carefully and meticulously, less afraid than before to venture into those futile fantasies that held no answers. Weaving these fantasies together, one extraordinary journey after another—yes, imagination should be a path, a way out, not just a burst of fireworks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e...Her writing is unpredictable, always telling magical stories with calm words, as Borges said. Miracles may occur, but people are real and substantial, retaining almost all the essential details of human life. Therefore, they constantly create metaphors, giving us a feeling of constant reflection. This real world may not be worthy of such care, but ultimately, it is the only thing we truly have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Tang Nuo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Shen Dacheng's writing possesses a well-honed sense of drama, character, and stage presence. Every conflict and literary contradiction woven into her novels feels like stage and dramatic conflict. Some seemingly absurd narratives are remarkably symmetrical in reality. Her style is distinctive and unique among her contemporaries, and her handling of both real and transcendental stories often surprises. Her imagination is unfettered, expansive, and boundless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Su Tong\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"台海出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085141168367,"sku":"9787516830475","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1dLHTfSF8t9H_hB7q9HY_9IRpqOPLWGkF.jpg?v=1734602871"},{"product_id":"浪的景观-9787532182244","title":"Wave Landscape","description":"\"My friends and I were once in a tropical storm in the 1990s. I took my friends on bicycles and headed straight into the water, pedaling hard.\u003cbr\u003e And then, together, we entered the dry next century.” \u003cbr\u003e——Zhou Jianing※ Four years later, Zhou Jianing’s new collection of novellas follows Basic Beauty, completing the millennial novella trilogy with Goodbye Solar Eclipse, Landscape of Waves, and Tomorrow’s Party. Starting with the three themes of “genius girls,” underground clothing, and radio culture, respectively, with a solid, precise, and restrained narrative, he outlines the inner qualities of a generation of Chinese people who grew up in the context of globalization.\u003cbr\u003e About collective memory and individual dreams, the wind on the crest of the waves and good fortune, the wreckage left in the shallows, friendship and monuments. The resonance from the beginning of the century fills the present moment, until the passion that once existed reshapes itself in an increasingly complete order.\u003cbr\u003e ※ From a remote American town to a basement called \"Windbreak\" somewhere in Nanjing, from a southbound train packed with Luo Dayou fans to the defunct Shanghai Dimei Underground City, Zhou Jianing writes about friendship, love, and dreams in the tide of the times, providing readers with \"a clean and bright place\" in the form of a novel. \u003cbr\u003eThis book includes three novellas written by Zhou Jianing from 2019 to the present: \"Goodbye Solar Eclipse\" (2019), \"Landscape of Waves\" (2021), and \"Tomorrow's Party\" (2022).\u003cbr\u003e \"Goodbye Solar Eclipse\": Japanese writer Taku Mitsushima returns to the small town of Paonia after twenty years, reuniting with friends from his youth. 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Standing before the pyramid on the beach, \"I\" decided not to be a victim trapped in memories, but to extend my arms and send a signal of courage to the universe. \u003cbr\u003e\"Tomorrow's Party\": Zhang Zhou, the host of a late-night music show, connects the friendships of \"me,\" Wang Lu, Xiao Xiao, and the \"Combat Command\" group like a formless wave. We journey through Shanghai, Nanjing, Beijing, and Taipei at the turn of the century, attempting to build a \"Tomorrow's Party\" about musical dreams in a virtual space and time, nestled in the Yangtze River Estuary wetlands. However, under the pressure of the times, nothing seems to hold. 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He won the \"Korea Ilbo\" Creative Literature Award for this book, and was invited by director Park Kwang-soo to enter the film industry the following year. He then transformed and gradually became an internationally influential film master.\u003cbr\u003e This collection of novels depicts a group of people from lower classes caught up in the complex and volatile tides of history, struggling to pursue true values ​​in life, grappling with the pain of reality, and searching for the meaning of their lives. 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He has won the Italian Malaparte Prize, the Spanish San Clemente Prize, was shortlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize, and was awarded the Writer of the Year award for Norway's Future Library project.\u003cbr\u003e As a backbone of the Korean literary world, Han Kang is very likely to become an important candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature among contemporary Korean writers.\u003cbr\u003e -- Nobel Prize winner in Literature and leading figure in French literature Jean-Claude Le Clézio ◆ It is eight times more brilliant than The Vegetarian and won the Korean Novel Literature Award with only one-eighth of its content.\u003cbr\u003e Flowers and beasts, plants and iron, blindness and falling, dreams of escape and injured feet, failed love, broken family ties and us wandering in a world without hope.\u003cbr\u003e ◆A low-level person who holds a knife in his heart and saves himself from danger again and again.\u003cbr\u003e A wife who turned into a plant, a housewife who ran away from home, a girl who resolutely became a nun, a mother with a knife in her heart, and a couple who were unable to maintain their love. \u003cbr\u003e◆Directly translated from Korean by Professor Cui Youxue of Minzu University of China, the cover was specially drawn by the super popular illustrator Lu Mao, and the binding design was undertaken by designer Fu Shiyi. The inner and outer covers are hardcover with laser hot stamping. \u003cbr\u003eThis collection consists of eight novellas and short stories. Han Jiang captures fleeting feelings and impressions in these clashes, depicting the complexities of fate with beautiful and vivid language. His explorations of the darker sides of human relationships shimmer with dazzling light. This collection of short stories focuses on those \"underprivileged,\" with each protagonist wandering like an orphan in a hopeless world. They emerge from hotel rooms in remote towns, rooms at the end of examination hall corridors, dark basements, and the dead ends of multi-family homes and high-rise apartment buildings, traversing dark stairways and unlit alleyways to the teeming, weary streets of the city. Yet, even if they leave behind the weary and miserable lives of countless cities to live in secluded seaside towns or remote port cities, they ultimately return to the city; this is their destiny. 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In the author's words, those relationships that ended silently with sobs, those betrayals that were ignored and realized belatedly, and those cold and resolute turns and disregards together construct an emotional network more complex than the plot of the story. \u003cbr\u003eThe wives of prisoners suffering injustice, students suffering domestic violence, Christians fleeing to Africa for penance, families of shipwreck victims, and close friends isolated by war... The people in these stories exist on the margins of the secular world, often weak and quiet, harmless yet repeatedly wounded, unable to escape depression and pain. Their hearts are etched with inherent wounds, a unique texture that cannot be erased or repaired. And the perpetrators are often just as harmless.\u003cbr\u003e The comfort and happiness we yearn for are always achieved only after shielding ourselves from the loneliness and suffering of others. Cui Enrong tenderly captures these cruel stories, which radiate a chill beneath the warm sunlight and a profound sense of loss amidst intimacy. As memories silently crackle, half the characters in these stories move forward without hesitation, while the other half remain forever stuck, leaving only loneliness to echo.\u003cbr\u003e ----------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e■Media \u0026amp; Reader Reviews: \"I want to be harmless. I don't want to cause pain to others. I've experienced firsthand how destructive pain people can inflict. But have I achieved that? I haven't been able to become that person... Do we truly understand each other? Do we truly want to understand? Every time I write fiction, I feel firsthand how far apart we are from each other, and how we can never fully understand one another... Many people are despised and hated simply for being who they are. I want to see the world and people from their perspective. I want to be that kind of writer.\" - Choi Eun-young. This is undoubtedly a remarkable debut. - Washington Independent Book Review. Choi Eun-young, like Sally Rooney, Banana Yoshimoto, and Marilynne Robinson, writers from diverse cultural backgrounds who unabashedly examine interpersonal relationships and the female experience, is a writer worth watching. - Penguin Publishing. These stories are painful and complex, but not depressing. They show what it's like for ordinary people with painful pasts and uncertain futures to live out their lives under the cold sun. - The Observer. Choi Eun-young leaves readers with moments that are both gems and burning coals. 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Separation doesn't necessarily mean a heart-wrenching loss; it can also quietly remove a piece of your flesh and blood when you're not paying attention. —Goodreads reader Eve\u003cbr\u003e The books are all about how people lose people, because of time, death, mistakes and some reasons that you don’t understand and will never understand, which happens to each of us. -Goodreads reader Edeh\u003cbr\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e ■About the selection of articles:\u003cbr\u003e The stories in this book are selected from two representative short story collections of writer Cui Enrong, \"Xiangzi's Smile\" and \"People Who Do No Harm to Me\". \u003cbr\u003eThe short story \"Xiangzi's Smile\" included in this book is the author's award-winning debut and the work that made her famous. \"Hello, Goodbye,\" \"Sister, My Little Sister Sun-ae,\" \"Han Ji and Young-joo,\" and \"Michael\" are all included in the collection of the same name, \"Xiangzi's Smile\" (Korea Literature Village Publishing, 2016). 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A journey that was frustrating, but not a failure.\u003cbr\u003e ◎ \"2666\" has won many reading awards in 2012: Shenzhen Reading Month's Top Ten Books of the Year; \"China Reading Newspaper's Top Ten Books of the Year\", and it is the only foreign novel selected; \"China Book Business News\"'s Most Influential Book of the Year; shortlisted for Sina Reading's Top Ten Books of the Year, etc.\u003cbr\u003e ◎ Bolaño's superb skills in short story writing are comparable to those of Kafka and Borges.\u003cbr\u003e —————————————————————— \u003cbr\u003e\"The Last Night on Earth\" consists of fourteen stories, most of which revolve around \"B,\" a Chilean exile who wanders aimlessly through South America and Europe. He weaves together the stories of his contemporaries, nearly all disillusioned members of a generation in exile, struggling on the margins, trapped in nightmares. These individuals, like those in a dream, constantly change their appearance, name, or background from story to story. Critics generally agree that Bolaño's mastery of the short story rivals that of Kafka and Borges.","brand":"上海人民出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085141856495,"sku":"9787208112025","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/s26258459.jpg?v=1749022754"},{"product_id":"重返暗夜-9787208168022","title":"Return to the Dark Night","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35249410\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/6avYx7hihUGqTjs7A7LiDh\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ \"2666\" is a short story masterpiece by Bolaño that subverts imagination. It is a surreal literary maze that is more imaginative than \"The Last Night on Earth\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ☆Adventures in the chaotic dark night, memories trapped in nightmares, and inescapable loneliness. Thirteen dark and turbulent stories, some as strong as all-consuming acid, some as frenzied as ghostly shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e————————————————\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The book consists of thirteen stories, written roughly between 1995 and 2000. A diverse cast of characters enters these stories, either actively or passively. From a literary-loving gang leader, an aging pornographic film star, and a football player possessing a certain kind of magic, to a soldier mistaken for an artist, a ghost witnessing his own afterlife, poets, exiles, and young people trapped in nightmares—these are all frequent characters in Bolaño's fiction. Together, they convey both lingering darkness and awe-inspiring light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ————————————————\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e These outstanding short stories from a giant of Latin American literature perfectly illustrate the fact that Bolaño writes with such elegance, passion and personal style that it is worth reading. ... Each story seems to turn the reader into a voyeur, catching the profile of chaotic lives and ghosts. - The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBolaño tells these impossible stories with such daring vision that we can't say enough about them. We'll spoil them as little as possible, but rest assured, you've never read anything like it. —The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Dark, secretive, and quietly touching. There is gold to be found in this collection of stories. - The New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The sense of being ready for battle animates his writing, and his obsession with digging deep into wounds makes \"Back to the Night\" a remarkable representative of his work. - Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This collection of thirteen short stories is a typical example of Bolaño's writing style, and all his themes and favorite characters are included in it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"世纪文景","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085141889263,"sku":"9787208168022","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1TzB6Npm2Dl4Re0f535nAN666FEeVrvdM.jpg?v=1734603146"},{"product_id":"燃烧的原野-9787544784252","title":"Burning Fields","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35221699\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/5oZF6Ij2XxwmgpNFs9VoB3\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Rulfo Trilogy\": \"The Burning Fields\", \"Pedro Páramo\", \"Golden Cockerel\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ The founder of the magical realism novel genre, known as the \"pioneer of the new Latin American novel\", leading the trend of the Latin American \"literary explosion\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ Without Rulfo, there might not be \"One Hundred Years of Solitude\"——\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The prototype of the classic opening of \"One Hundred Years of Solitude\" was inspired by \"Pedro Páramo\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In Rulfo's work, García Márquez \"found the path he needed to find to continue writing books.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ He left behind only a very limited number of works in his lifetime, but he is regarded as a literary idol by many writers——\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e García Márquez, Oe Kenzaburo, Le Clézio…they all loved Rulfo’s description of the wilderness;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Su Tong...they were all deeply influenced by Rulfo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e★ Translated directly from Spanish by renowned translators\/scholars Zhao Zhenjiang, Tu Mengchao, Zhang Weijie, and Jin Can, with a preface and introduction, and including valuable content such as García Márquez's long preface, the author's autobiography, and a dedication to the Rulfo Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ The cover of the series exclusively uses Rulfo's personal photography, showing the vast and charming land of Mexico through the eyes of the writer, suitable for both reading and reading\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ---------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Burning Fields\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ◎ “If you ask me, this is a place where sadness builds its nest.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ◎ Despair is like a wildfire, burning the hard cowhide plain clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ◎ Rulfo's first collection of short stories, seventeen stories about the last men and women on Latin American soil\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e On the hard and cold land, the poor people are covered with dust on their shoulders, as light as a blade of grass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Because of poverty, a cow could determine a girl's fate. He was given land, but there wasn't even a blade of grass to block the wind. The raindrops that fell were swallowed up by the thirsty earth, disappearing in an instant. He got into trouble for begging grass for the poor animals and had to hide for most of his life, but they still refused to let him go...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the plains, the wind is dark and time stretches on. No one remembers time, only the silence contained within the loneliness of all things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Death is a hope for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Celebrity Reviews】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e My deep acquaintance with the work of Juan Rulfo has finally led me to the path I needed to follow in order to continue writing my book... His work is only three hundred pages long, but it is almost as vast as the work of Sophocles as we know it, and I believe it will be as enduring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Gabriel García Márquez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Rulfo's works are short and concise, and can be read in a few days, but this is only the first step into his unknown territory. The exploration of Rulfo's world is a very moving journey in the history of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Juan Rulfo reflects on the last men and women of our land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Carlos Fuentes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRulfo's writing reveals \"a landscape that is not what we see with our eyes, but what lies behind our sight. A landscape that never speaks of itself but of something else, even something more distant. It is a metaphysical, a religious, a thought about man and the universe. (…) Rulfo is the only Mexican novelist who has given us an image of the Mexican landscape rather than a description of it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Octavio Paz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Rulfo's novel is not only a masterpiece of 20th-century literature, but also one of the most influential books of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Susan Sontag\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It was Juan Rulfo who truly opened the entrance to time for the first time. It was that mysterious, irrational, multi-time concept that transcends life and death and breaks logic that made him obsessed and pushed the writing of \"regionalism\" to a dreamlike and divine extreme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Jidi Maga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In writing Pedro Páramo and The Burning Fields, Juan Rulfo shows that writing never ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Yu Hua\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRulfo's novels are like sad songs that wander through the Mexican countryside, with no beginning or end and confusing lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Zhang Jiawei\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"译林出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085143068911,"sku":"9787544784252","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1cyKzgstHKKeFLl85P5ftecOI5JgHxNH4.jpg?v=1734603184"},{"product_id":"金鸡-9787544784429","title":"Golden Rooster","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35310695\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/23r7Q5JaJSXowSxarjCfz0\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Rulfo Trilogy\": \"The Burning Fields\", \"Pedro Páramo\", \"Golden Cockerel\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ The founder of the magical realism novel genre, known as the \"pioneer of the new Latin American novel\", leading the trend of the Latin American \"literary explosion\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ Without Rulfo, there might not be \"One Hundred Years of Solitude\"——\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The prototype of the classic opening of \"One Hundred Years of Solitude\" was inspired by \"Pedro Páramo\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In Rulfo's work, García Márquez \"found the path he needed to find to continue writing books.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ He left behind only a very limited number of works in his lifetime, but he is regarded as a literary idol by many writers——\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e García Márquez, Oe Kenzaburo, Le Clézio…they all loved Rulfo’s description of the wilderness;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Su Tong...they were all deeply influenced by Rulfo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e★ Translated directly from Spanish by renowned translators\/scholars Zhao Zhenjiang, Tu Mengchao, Zhang Weijie, and Jin Can, with a preface and introduction, and including valuable content such as García Márquez's long preface, the author's autobiography, and a dedication to the Rulfo Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ The cover of the series exclusively uses Rulfo's personal photography, showing the vast and charming land of Mexico through the eyes of the writer, suitable for both reading and reading\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ---------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Golden Rooster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ◎ Rulfo Foundation Centennial Edition, Chinese version introduced for the first time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ◎ Fifteen of Juan Rulfo's most recognizable literary gems, some of which are now available for the first time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Includes \"The Golden Rooster,\" a letter written to his lover Clara in 1947, twelve short stories, a poem \"The Secret Recipe,\" the author's autobiography, a dedication to the Rulfo Foundation, an appreciation of the text of \"The Golden Rooster,\" and the film's origins, among other valuable content\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ◎ The film of the same name was adapted by García Márquez and Fuentes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDionisio Pinzón, with a disabled arm, could only make a living as a \"caller\" in his village. At a temple fair, he rescued a dying golden rooster and cared for it lovingly, but his mother died from overwork. With nothing left, he placed his fate in the care of the rooster and decided to venture out on his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The golden rooster won countless cockfights, unexpectedly giving him the courage to live. Traveling extensively, Benson met a \"castrated chicken lady,\" and wherever she was, he was invincible. Just when he thought his luck had turned, fate had its own plans...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Celebrity Reviews】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Carlos Vero's commission to adapt The Golden Chicken for the screen forced me to delve deeper into a work I was sure I knew better than the author himself. ... Rulfo's personal charm shines through in his writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Gabriel García Márquez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It would be foolish and wrong to relegate The Golden Cockerel to the lesser end of the spectrum, regardless of the author's canon. Perhaps it is more appropriate to consider that Juan Rulfo felt the inner vitality that literature, as a film script, can evoke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Zhao Zhenjiang\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuan Rulfo reflects on the last men and women of our land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Carlos Fuentes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Rulfo's writing reveals \"a landscape that is not what we see with our eyes, but what lies behind our sight. A landscape that never speaks of itself but of something else, even something more distant. It is a metaphysical, a religious, a thought about man and the universe. 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No one can so elevate the clichés and banality of everyday life through literature. —Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner in Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ====\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy accept the commonplace when there are other possibilities? Reading Cortázar is like falling lightly down Alice's rabbit hole, wandering through a wardrobe into Narnia with wonder, and slowly yet gracefully stepping into the more subtle realms of the ordinary world. Reality and fantasy intertwine, and the order of time and space unfolds like a kaleidoscope, brimming with subversive possibilities. Daily life and the beautiful imaginary self sometimes overlap and sometimes clash, forming connections that are strange, mysterious, and absurd. 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A nightmarish atmosphere invades an old house, forcing its two inhabitants to retreat until they finally escape. Riding the elevator to the second floor, one suddenly feels like vomiting a rabbit. Meeting a boy whose life trajectory mirrors one's own offers a glimpse into the endless cycle of reincarnation... Reading Cortázar never feels dull. Every subtle experience in everyday life unfolds like a sudden improvisation, allowing you to follow your intuition and desire to unexpected destinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Occupied House is the first collection of Cortázar's short stories, including \"The Other Shore,\" \"Bestiary,\" and \"The End of the Game.\" \"The Other Shore\" is published in Chinese for the first time. \"The Other Shore\" is light and lovely, \"Bestiary\" is unique and exquisite, and \"The End of the Game\" is profound and bizarre. 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If time is infinite, we are at every point in time.\" Each story contains philosophical and metaphysical reflections on concepts such as infinity, possibility, death, memory, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"上海译文出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085143265519,"sku":"9787532762927","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1cg_DOLg3-ctS1n0g0DMMQyixDo_r7fO0.jpg?v=1734603200"},{"product_id":"恶棍列传-9787532762880","title":"Villain Biographies","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/25796066\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/0GKh9S6IH4IykeyPJSwU91\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorges's first novel, published in 1935, focuses on the stories of \"villains\" from around the world, including slave traders in the American South, New York gang leaders, British vagabonds who impersonate the sons of prominent families, and even Kirara Uenosuke, a ceremonial official who insulted the Ako domain during the Edo period of Japan and was ultimately avenged, and Zheng Guafu, a renowned female pirate during the Qing Dynasty of China. The authentic historical background interweaves with the author's imagination to depict the \"anti-heroes\" who emerged from the chaotic corners of society. The bizarre plot, eccentric characters, and subtle humor combine to create a Baroque-style frivolity. The author said, \"There are gallows and pirates in the book, and 'villains' reign' in the title, but beneath the chaos lies nothing. It is only the appearance, the appearance of images; and precisely because of this, perhaps it can bring joy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"上海译文出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085143298287,"sku":"9787532762880","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1Aj2Am7E8SAYhKWtnAFieJnNECTsJ_N9n.jpg?v=1734603203"},{"product_id":"阿莱夫-9787532762934","title":"Aleph","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/25796122\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/0Elg5R18Oc2DA1LiaJRX5P\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eA collection of short stories, published in 1949, containing seventeen short stories. Aleph (א) is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In mathematics, it represents infinity and the infinite set. 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The protagonist, Dahlmann, a secretary at the Buenos Aires Municipal Library, inexplicably scratches his forehead while ascending a staircase. This leads to a high fever and recurring nightmares, leading to his admission to a sanatorium. After his condition improves, he decides to return to his ancestral estate in the South to recuperate. He travels by cab, train, and foot, finally, on a whim, stopping at a grocery store for lunch, where he becomes embroiled in a duel and dies at the hands of his opponent. Within Borges's linguistic labyrinth, this story offers a different interpretation: Dahlmann never died; his journey back to the South was a dream he had while lying in his hospital bed, where he died in a duel. 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Here:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The dead will return to their youthful appearance and float around the world on the ocean currents, carrying with them the flowers and aquatic plants of all the places they pass by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e If it rains too long, you might wake up to see an angel land in the mud in your yard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A ship that has run aground and sunk can become a ghost ship, repeating its ominous fate over and over again. 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It encompasses all the elements that Clarice cares about: self, truth, existence, origin, time, motherhood, expression...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"人民文学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085144281327,"sku":"9787020160099","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1qLj__vllIF8r5KYs-et7yTkwFe8d_vxs.jpg?v=1734603325"},{"product_id":"家庭纽带-9787020155620","title":"Family Ties","description":"Editor's Recommendation: \u003cbr\u003e★ Highly recommended by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and Booker Prize winner Colm Tóibín, a famous Irish writer★ Clarice Lispector, one of Brazil's contemporary classic writers, is hailed as the most important Jewish writer since Kafka and a truly unique writer in Latin American literature. This is a classic collection of short stories focusing on the fate and inner world of women, especially housewives. ★ Family Ties was published in 1960 and received unanimous praise from critics. The following year, it won the Yabuti Literary Award in the short story category. Fernando Sabino, a close friend of Clarice Lispector, said that \"(this book) is definitely the best collection of short stories ever published in Brazil.\"\u003cbr\u003e Family Ties (Short Classics Collection) \u003cbr\u003eAt a crossroads, she fell into the fate of a woman. An important Jewish writer after Kafka internalized writing as his ultimate destiny. Clarice Lispector's classic short story collection, Family Ties, published in 1960, includes thirteen brilliantly conceived stories, telling the stories of the following characters with clumsy lives: Anna always arranges her life and that of her family in perfect order, but when she sees a blind man chewing gum, her \"truth\" completely disintegrates; women long confined to family life become drunk, either intentionally or unintentionally, thereby challenging their husbands or male authority; an old woman is the reason for the family's annual gathering, but almost no one truly cares about her, so she can only express her contempt in her own way; and a hen that flees in panic. 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Beyond interviews, The Paris Review itself is a leading international literary powerhouse, consistently publishing the world's finest short stories. Since its founding in 1953, it has amassed hundreds of exquisite works of literary art. In 2012, Lorraine Stein, then editor-in-chief of The Paris Review, invited twenty leading contemporary short story writers to select a short story published in the magazine and write a short review based on their preferences and aesthetics. Lorraine and Sadie Stein then published these selected stories and their short reviews together in a collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The twenty short stories collected in this book are all different, with great differences in style and length, and the publication time span is almost as long as the history of the magazine. 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Cornell's The Grand Life of Mrs. Bridget \/ Review by Welles Tower\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Dallas Webb's Night Flight to Stockholm \/ Review by Joy Williams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"人民文学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085144707311,"sku":"9787020132317","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1x6ZsFU50LIx1-84F_gLbV8rXIyyPlKUM_be22b3c1-dd34-447a-91b5-e3381bb8377e.jpg?v=1734603350"},{"product_id":"万火归一-9787544280716","title":"All Fires Return to One","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34787198\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/2CpalCcdw2pbdyRDQnSIUl\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithin a limited and cramped space, his consciousness and imagination are pushed to their limits. On midnight highways, inside airplane cabins, in icy hospital wards, beneath glass-domed skies... Cortázar's pen creates strangely twisted, resilient, and enduring souls who struggle to escape their predetermined fate, even as the flames envelop them irresistibly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This book is a collection of Julio Cortázar's short stories, including \"Southern Highway,\" \"The Patient's Health,\" \"The Rendezvous,\" \"Miss Cora,\" \"Island at Noon,\" \"Instructions to John Howell,\" \"All Fires Become One,\" and \"Another Sky.\" The novels unfold amidst the details of everyday life, and as the author often does, the plot gradually reveals the out-of-control and absurd aspects, vividly and detachedly capturing the incredible and complex emotions of modern people in social life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"南海出版公司","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085147099375,"sku":"9787544280716","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1uzzBydGjZ8o04GNzCRnCejs0mYL5F6QU.jpg?v=1734603698"},{"product_id":"游戏的终结-9787544280709","title":"The End of the Game","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34786083\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/2Ydfp2KzMJ2aNJOqEaPgYZ\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn almost every hotel he had stayed in his life, there was always a sealed door in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Someone had come in and out of the door before, knocked on it, left it ajar, and given it a certain vitality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e And at this late hour of the night, everything behind the door is awake, awake and longing in silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The only real thing at this moment between day and night deceives us with unbearable lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It was all eerily ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ————————————————\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A man reads a murder plot with gusto, only to have the killer's gaze burn his neck. Is the cycle of life a hopeless repetition of suffering, or an eternal refuge for ignorance? The band performance he accidentally glimpses in the cinema is an illusion disguised as an illusion, but also a truth higher than the truth. Pure love transforms into a finger raised to the sky, ending all possibility of jealousy, tenderness, and happiness...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume includes famous works such as \"Continuation of the Park\", \"A Yellow Flower\" and \"Night, Facing the Sky\". It not only continues the bizarre and mysterious text structure and rich and transcendent imagination in Cortázar's early short stories, but also presents his deeper examination and compassion for human nature and destiny. It is a representative work of Cortázar's important transition period from his aesthetic stage to the metaphysical stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——————————————\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ Idols inspire respect, admiration, attachment, and, of course, deep envy. And Cortázar is one of the few writers who can evoke all of these emotions. Furthermore, he can evoke another, less common emotion: piety. —Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The End of the Game perfectly captures how Cortázar understood the dramatic transition from childhood to adulthood. —British scholar Peter Standish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ In the face of boring and dull daily life, you might as well get lost in this pure and romantic world and love the fragile and fleeting things together.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e★ 2020 classic single volume: revised translation, beautifully bound, portable and easy to read, a must-have for collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"南海出版公司","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085147132143,"sku":"9787544280709","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1fKyLAi5M7rJmGq3ZVGnljBwS_04X23or.jpg?v=1734603700"},{"product_id":"小行星掉在下午-9787559823144","title":"The asteroid fell in the afternoon","description":"The epidemic zone with flashing neon lights, the super-large subway station where the cuttlefish people hide, the gradually mutated company employees, the great process of building a society on the new planet... This book is a selection of short stories recently written by Shen Dacheng. With his unique black humor, the author created a group of humans who seem to live on the twin planet of the earth, and placed them at the moment when the uncertain future is about to fall.\u003cbr\u003e A world that is heterogeneous yet has its own logic, readers can view it as a pleasant little revolution in their minds, but it is also difficult to ignore its realism. 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