Water and fire

This is the latest short story collection from Lin Gesheng, the inaugural winner of the "Boundless·Harvest App Double-Blind Writing Competition" on the Harvest app. From genre literature to serious literature, she uses "transgressive" fiction to explore unspeakable pain and indescribable fear. Zhao Menghe, a giant phobia obsessed with anime figures and miniature sculpture; Zheng Xin'ai, who fell in love with a pig in the Bahamas; Xu Changsheng, a 17-year-old migrant worker with synaesthesia; and a young man and woman who commit suicide together... These are a group of peculiar individuals with various hidden illnesses. Through a holistic observation of a morbid society and the realities of human nature, the author presents a collection of strange stories and prophecies about the contemporary city. The novel is written in a humorous and vivid language, brimming with boundary-breaking literary imagination. Traversing the boundaries between normal and abnormal, reality and surrealism, absurdity and illogicality, it explores the alienation between people and reveals the stories of the silent minority.

2024-01-01

上海文艺出版社

Single reading, carving culture

361

9787532189151