The faraway place I will go

The distant place I will go

United Daily News Literary Award winner Guo Qiangsheng, following his work "Broken Generations," has released another award-winning work, "Private Essays on Life," a love song dedicated to those who are single and in their early twenties. The difficulties continue, sadness brings quietude; caring for parents brings reflection, and loneliness brings clarity. "Can I, from now on, just focus on seeking freedom?"
🎐Editor's recommendation◎ Guo Qiangsheng's prose masterpiece, sincerely writing about the common confusions of life. Guo Qiangsheng, winner of the United Daily News Literary Award, is a writer highly praised by Wang Dewei and Zhu Tianwen. His prose masterpiece "The Faraway Place I Will Go" is introduced in simplified Chinese for the first time. He records his life experiences with sincere touches, starting from taking care of his elderly father with dementia, and writing about the common confusions of contemporary single elderly people: when the day comes that parents leave, how should children continue?
Frankly narrating, analyzing, and confronting life's underlying anxieties, this book, ranked among Kingstone's Top Ten Most Influential Books, a jury-recommended masterpiece for the 8th United Daily News Literary Awards, and with a film adaptation in the works directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien and sincerely recommended by Rene Liu, is a heartwarming and moving love song dedicated by Guo Qiangsheng to all those single and newly elderly. The time of singlehood is also a time to retake the exam paper of life, with aging parents before us and the life we've lived behind us. Facing the eternal themes of aging and death, Guo Qiangsheng's writing, each piece imbued with profound emotion, shines a glimmer of light amidst the shattered ruins of life.
Beyond family, he explores the myriad aspects of life, presenting a broader and deeper reflection on life. In "Where I'll Go," Guo Qiangsheng discusses unforgettable flavors and cherished collections, revealing the preciousness of his own life. He also discusses Emmanuelle Riva, Yasujiro Ozu, and Edward Albee, witnessing the strength of perseverance in others. Family, friendship, nostalgia... amidst this multifaceted presentation of life, there's always a line of text that resonates deeply.
Synopsis: After the successive deaths of his mother and brother, the once-perfect family is left with only an aging father suffering from dementia and a single son. In "The Faraway Place I'll Go," renowned author Guo Qiangsheng chooses to transcend the former rift between father and son, honestly analyzing his inner turmoil and turmoil, embarking on a journey of healing and repair.
"Perhaps only those who are still able to change are free." Change is what Guo Qiangsheng does. In this work, he explores family affection, reconciling and coping with his aging father with dementia while caring for him daily; he discusses others, gazing at life through night market stalls and city streets; and he discusses himself, recounting the treasures in his boxes and the flavors of his childhood. With his characteristically gentle and deeply moving writing style, Guo Qiangsheng teaches us to extract the familiar, reassuring, and hopeless memories of life, offering them true companionship in the second half of life and guiding those lost in the city toward a brighter future.
🎐The media recommends Guo Qiangsheng's works, which is exactly what Kafka said, "We should only read books that bite and sting us. So-called books must be axes that chop down the frozen sea in our hearts."
——Ode to the 8th United Daily News Literary Awards When the world goes out, we feel like we are in an abandoned space station, floating to an unknown destination. We are grateful that there are serious writers who write about the unspeakable suffering of the masses, and who shine a little light in the foggy sea of ​​suffering, guiding the distant future of life.
This distance is also the near, which is where life comes from.
——Awards won by writer Zhong Wenyin
Kingstone's Top Ten Most Influential Books of 2017
2021 8th United Daily News Literary Awards Judges Recommended Representative Works

2022-08-01

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