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Lin Zhao's novel is particularly unique among the Chinese novels I've read in recent years. Her somewhat trance-like narrative style and the lush content she describes even form an intertextual relationship. The climate, plants, and temperature all take on a sensual quality through the characters' actions and feelings. This departure from conventional literary narrative, this power of heterogeneity, this courage to indulge in one's own aberrations, is something worth cherishing. —Sun Ganlu Lin Zhao's novels are worth recommending to young readers of literature. Readers need not be perplexed by the fog of her linguistic carnival. "Liuxi" is written like a series of introspections by the author, inviting us into her inner jungle, presenting multiple layers of reality—written in captivating contemporary Chinese, even though the language repeatedly betrays us. —Mianmian This is a monologue fraught with doubt: it's hard to say whether the narrator is an ingenue, a madman, a con man, or all three. She was tangled between her dissolute lover, her broken mother and her violent father, building a questionable first half of her life with bubbles and dreams, and finally falling into an irreversible ending.
This debut work presents the texture of miniature painting, carrying the unique flavor, scenery and memories of subtropical Lingnan, telling the story of the wrong path and possible price of growing up, commemorating the weak who were arbitrarily broken and rotted on the ground, and the love and life they once had.

2020-04-01

上海三联书店

Ideal Country

192

9787542669988