The rest of my life

🧊 Selected Micro-Novels by Li Zishu Lonely, melancholy, tender, alienated, marginalized, mediocre Seventy-one micro-novels capturing a fleeting moment in a bustling crowd, silent people, and a hidden, tumultuous life. —Why are people so close, yet so utterly strange? ※Editor's Recommendation※ This collection of micro-novels by Malaysian-Chinese author Li Zishu features seventy-one pieces, each around a thousand words long. These concise and refined stories depict worldly affairs, human emotions, and subtle aspects of human nature, making them highly engaging. The seventy-one micro-novels draw from a rich variety of subjects: mundane trivialities, love and relationships, sci-fi allegories, alienation and distortion, as well as the dual-faced melancholy and tenderness found in fleeting moments. With precise and focused insights, these extremely short pieces offer readers a rich reading experience through their fluid and unexpected twists or lingering, abrupt endings. The selected micro-novels in "The Rest of My Life" are like snapshots of life taken from bustling crowds, using a sensitive and perceptive perspective to peek into the hidden side of the vast world. They reveal the secret and turbulent inner lives of concrete and silent individuals, preserving slices of memory and destiny through vibrant scents, colors, and sensations. They piece together lonely, melancholy, tender, alienated, marginalized, and mediocre people and their hearts, connecting the emotional flow and living conditions between individuals and the city. "I try to infuse the soul of poetry into these novels, like a trembling butterfly landing on a sharp blade, giving the novels an unbearable lightness." —Li Zishu

2025-01-01

北京十月文艺出版社

266

9787530224373