The dust has settled.

◎ Winner of the 5th Mao Dun Literature Prize, a literary classic that has sold millions of copies ◎ A-Lai, a heavyweight author consistently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, the youngest winner in the history of the Mao Dun Literature Prize ◎ From the perspective of a foolish young master with foresight, it tells the story of the collapse of the last Tusi family on the snowy plateau ◎ Poetic and nimble language | Inspiration from Tibetan folk legends | An allegory of the rise and fall of an era ◎ The exclusive final version approved by A-Lai, newly published for the 20th anniversary of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, comes with 3 exquisite real-shot cards, and a limited edition signed by A-Lai with his personal seal ----------------------------------------- 【Synopsis】 A prestigious old Tibetan Tusi, Maiqi, fathered a foolish son with his Han Chinese wife after drinking. This fool, whom everyone dismissed, was out of sync with reality but possessed premonitions and behaviors beyond his time. When other Tusis were widely planting poppies, the foolish young master suddenly suggested switching to wheat. As a result, opium was oversupplied and unwanted, and large numbers of starving people flocked to Maiqi. The Maiqi family's territory and population reached an unprecedented scale, and the foolish young master thus married the beautiful Tana and established the first border trade market in the Kham region. However, when the foolish young master returned to the Maiqi Tusi's official residence, a bloody internal family struggle for succession quietly began... ----------------------------------------- 【Recommendations from Renowned Critics】 The language is light and charming, full of nimble poetry, demonstrating the author's outstanding artistic talent. — Award Citation for the 5th Mao Dun Literature Prize I believe that for A-Lai, writing is a sacred act; everything depends on serendipity. When serendipity arrives, stories naturally emerge from someone's consciousness and circulate in the world. — Tie Ning The success of "Red Poppies" is not so much a success of narrative as it is a success of language, ultimately a success of poetic and heterogeneous expression. — Jidi Majia His narration is a game of signifiers, renaming all things in his world with extraordinary sensibility. At that point, the dust settled. — Li Jingze With the focus, creativity, and tenacious digging spirit of a writer, A-Lai is able to creatively absorb elements of Latin American magical realism and successfully break free from the influence of Latin American literary masters, thus avoiding becoming a crawler at the feet of masters. — Qiu Huadong A-Lai's novels are imbued with a "rustic simplicity," which, to a certain extent, is "anti-technical." His words run freely in a fictional space. His language is concise, plain, elegant, and poetic, natural rather than seeking splendor, especially its "clumsiness," a "clumsiness" that is seasoned and thick. Therefore, such "clumsiness" inevitably carries a subtle, sometimes even boundary-crossing "Zen" wisdom. — Zhang Xuexin Rather than saying that A-Lai is good at telling stories of Tibetan life, it is more accurate to say that he is good at describing the fragmentation, wavering, anxiety, and hidden pain of people living in the cracks of heterogeneous cultures. — Zhang Li

出版日期/Publication Date：October 1, 2020
出版社/Publisher：浙江文艺出版社
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页数/Page: 472