Why not be sad seriously

【Editor's Recommendation】
This is a representative work of essays by the multi-award-winning Taiwanese writer Guo Qiangsheng. Highly recommended by Pai Hsien-yung, Xi Murong, Wang Dewei, Luo Yijun, and others! It's the most heart-wrenching and sincere work since "The Broken Generation."
"Why Not Be Serious About Sadness" has won numerous literary awards. It has a Douban rating of 8.6. Even before its publication, it's already a viral hit among literary fans.
 The 40th Golden Tripod Award for Literature Book Award;
 2015 Kaijuan Good Book Award·Chinese Writing Book of the Year;
 2016 Taiwan Literature Golden Classic Award.
Hailed as "a new chapter in contemporary Chinese literary creation," readers have exclaimed, "This is the most honest writer I've read since Eileen Chang." This is a personal tribute to self, family, loneliness, and love, captured in its candid and selfless self-examination. It explores betrayal and self-reliance, abandonment and protection, the aging and passing of loved ones, and the myriad truths of the past and future. The truth is only one: sadness. It is a personal memory, yet also a microcosm of countless families.
These are the words left behind after the author's soul wrestled with the truth. Home should be the ultimate haven, but he became a lone piece of driftwood in the vast ocean. A family torn apart, a self nearly shattered, he uses a pen, word by word, to depict the reborn relationship between father and son. By the end, he has finally reconciled with his family.
★It is not getting love that makes us a happy or complete person. What is more important is what kind of person we become after we find that we have been blinded by love or have lost love.
When deep love sparkles with sparks, and the heart is filled with joy as if it were yesterday, the once warm family begins a heartbreaking confrontation amidst complex oppression and entanglements: his brother has left his hometown, his mother has passed away suddenly, and his father, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his later years and was cheated out of all his money, begins a period of endless travel between the two places...
This is Guo Qiangsheng's deeply personal tribute to self, loneliness, family, and love, documenting the pain and scars, struggles, and hardships of life's vicissitudes. His candid and selfless self-examination not only captured fifty years of story in a single year, but also shone a light on it, leaving a skeletal mark that touches the heart invisibly. With a few words, he unravels the pain, exuding a gentle aura through his profound brushstrokes.

2021-10-01

江苏凤凰文艺出版社

Times Chinese International

248

9787559462466