Lengshuikeng

Douban

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"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".

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

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.

2023-10-01

中译出版社

Casting Culture

448

9787500175827