雨

The boundless downpour summons emotions and memories deep within the Nanyang rubber forests. This work is a winner of the Taiwan Times Literary Award and the United Daily News Literary Award, written by Huang Jinshu.
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※Editor's Recommendation※
"Rain" is the winner of the 2017 Taipei International Book Fair Grand Prize and the Golden Tripod Award for Literature. It was also the winner of the inaugural 2018 Peking University Wang Moren-Zhou Anyi World Chinese Literature Award. It also includes "Return," the short story winner of the 4th Yu Dafu Novel Award. Author Huang Jinshu is a renowned Malaysian Chinese writer and winner of major Taiwanese literary awards, including the Times Literary Award and the United Daily News Literary Award. "Rain" marks the first time Huang Jinshu's work has been introduced to mainland China in its original form.
Whether in the creative or research fields, Huang Jinshu's representativeness in contemporary Malaysian Chinese literature is undeniable. Liang Wendao once said, "A unique characteristic of Malaysian writers is their exceptional care in the management of language and words. Frankly speaking, even in mainland China today, the birthplace of what we call the Central Plains authentic rhyme, many contemporary novelists do not necessarily possess the same maturity and sophistication as Huang."
Huang Jinshu uses his writing and argumentation to combat historical amnesia and seek a path forward for Malaysian Chinese literature. Drawing on his experiences in his hometown, he inherits the nearly lost "alternative history" of the past, cultivating a fantasy historical narrative. Through literature, he invites us to reconsider the past and question the future.
☆ This book is written in a magical style with detailed descriptions. Reading it makes you feel lost in the depths of the humid and hot South China Sea rainforest, sharing the fear and terror of that small family and experiencing reincarnation together.
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※Introduction※
A small family, leaving their homeland for Southeast Asia, takes up residence and establishes roots in the rubber forests of the Malay Peninsula, surrounded by ferocious beasts, treacherous outsiders, and the lingering spirits of the dead. The slow, depressing pace of life, accompanied by the sudden disappearance and mysterious deaths of family members, accumulates until one day, erupting into a bizarre and explosive abrupt change. Torrential rains bring floods that sometimes lead to the other side, and from the clutches of death, they are ripped from this world, transformed into foreign objects, and cast into the next reincarnation, repeating the cycle over and over again.
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The rubber forest town always served as the original setting for his creations. The damp, greasy atmosphere, the simple, unadorned characters, the eerie, gloomy, and often menacing atmosphere. Huang Jinshu was melancholic, yet he "had to write." It was like Shen Congwen telling his stories of western Hunan... but Huang Jinshu was not Shen Congwen. Shen Congwen, faced with the indifference of nature, was able to cultivate a lyrical vision... Huang Jinshu's work exudes a murderous aura. Whether it's satirical prose or nostalgic sketches, you sense blood splattered between the lines. ... This reminds us of Lu Xun's style. "I offer my blood to the Xuanyuan clan." Writing is a life-long endeavor, and idlers should stay away. Our literary world is accustomed to hypocrisy, so the sudden arrival of a hard-working man is naturally what we welcome.
—Literary critic Wang Dewei: Modern novels since Kafka have always trudged through the process of both spirit and form. Now, reading Jinshu's novels, I find them to be swift poems. Poignantly, this swiftness is precisely due to the lack, or even nonexistence, of the cultural heritage of Malaysian Chinese literature. ... He is a scholar by origin, and even if I haven't read his seminal works of literary criticism (I've read "Literature, Soul, and Body: On Modern Chineseness" more than once), I can still sense their radiant energy. He possesses immense talent, and as a novelist, he understands this absence better than any of his Malaysian Chinese colleagues, and strives to capitalize on it, becoming his "metamorphosis" form.
—A truly powerful and beautiful collection of short stories by Taiwanese author Chu Tianwen. … This collection of stories depicts the familiar rainforest with a more refined prose and a more vividly illustrated imagery. Because the characters don't exist to be devoured by a later magic trick or narrative monster, they gain even more vividness and lifelike presence.
—Taiwanese writer Luo Yijun

2018-03-01

四川人民出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

272

9787220105135