Boy, Rouge, and the Ghost

Ten stories born amidst the mist and clouds of smoke, the crowing of cocks and the barking of dogs, seek to restore dignity to those trapped by life and fate. "Boys, Rouge, and Ghosts" collects ten stories, most of which take place in a small town in central Sichuan on the banks of the Dadu River. A prostitute trapped in love, a hermaphrodite on a lonely island, a mountain ranger carving spirits, a boy with a dog's eye, a girl fluttering into the river like a butterfly, a teenager consumed by dreams and fantasies, a doctor hanged from a ginkgo tree, a grandmother who returns home sixty years after her death... These characters trapped by life and fate, whether silent in pain, enduring melancholy, or struggling with desire, ultimately become mere everyday conversation, vanishing amidst the mist and clouds of smoke, the crowing of cocks and the barking of dogs.
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Sincerely recommended by Yan Lianke, Yu Jian, Zhai Yongming, Liang Hong, Han Dong and Sun Yisheng!
This is the latest short story collection by Zhou Kai, a talented writer born in the 1990s. It includes his debut work "Hermaphrodite Volume A and B" published in "Tiannan", his early works "Like Her" and "Niu Xiangkun", and his recent work "Santana".
Everyone has a boy, a touch of rouge, and a spirit in their heart...
Among the younger generation of writers, he is unique in that he can see life in nothingness and nothingness in life.
——Yan Lianke (Zhou Kai) shows a high pursuit of literature, which is very rare... He has his own very good thoughts on culture itself and language itself, showing great vision and pursuit.
—Alai: Today's writers are proud of being "postmodern." Zhou Kai's writing, which "steps back" towards classicism and conservatism, is quite avant-garde!
——Yu Jian and Zhou Kai’s novels are powerful and concise, which is rare among their contemporaries. In particular, the themes he cares about are grand and profound enough, far away from the writer’s own small world.
——Han Dong and Zhou Kai inherited Li Jieren’s tradition and created a new flower in the Sichuan dialect novel tradition.
The post-90s generation is a proud one. Zhou Kai emerged late in this generation, but his position is crucial; he can be described as a phenomenal figure. He will undoubtedly, like Han Dong, Bei Dao, Zhang Zao, Ge Fei, and Yu Hua before him, reach maturity before the age of thirty.
This book consists of ten stories that descend into the mundane world, their sentences cloaked in mud and dust. With genius and intuition, the author writes each sentence as if to add a commentary to an already defined world; sometimes a single word or even a single character is the code for the novel.
——Sun Yisheng

2021-07-01

中信出版集团

Chuchen Culture

216

9787521732962