The Summer When General Winter Comes

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The most anticipated Chinese literary masterpiece of 2019!

—— A healing book about love and life.

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Editor's Recommendation

Four reasons why you must read it!

★ A masterpiece of Chinese literature! A heartwarming and healing story that will leave you lingering on the experience!

If you have ever been alone in the face of hardships in life, or even felt lonely and desperate, then you must not miss this book - "The Summer When General Winter Comes", a healing work about love and life.

You are not alone!

★ A new breakthrough work by Gan Yaoming, a representative writer of the Mesozoic era in Taiwan, China.

This is a new novel by Gan Yaoming, winner of the United Daily News Literary Award, the Wu Zhuoliu Literary Award, the Taipei Book Fair Grand Prize, and the Dream of the Red Chamber Award Jury Prize! It was selected for the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair.

★ Highly recommended by four talented writers from different generations!

Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, famous writer Liang Hong, young writer Zhou Jianing, and Blancpain Prize winner Wang Zhanhei, four generations of writers praised it!

★ After years of creation, the author broke through himself and wrote this novel for the first time from a perspective close to ordinary people.

The empathy, innocence and warmth between the lines of Gan Yaoming's writing are like a pot of fire, and the various social realities cleverly incorporated into the novel, such as elderly people living together, mutual aid societies for the deceased, death and a good death, constantly stir our hearts.

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◎ Introduction

This is a healing story that brings together a lot of pain and cruelty, but still allows people to feel "love and being loved".

"Three days before I was raped, my dead grandmother came back to find me." The beginning of the novel is shocking.

I was like a broken person, having lost my job, been raped by a wicked person, framed by a colleague, betrayed by my biological mother, and hunted by criminals...

At this moment, my grandmother, along with four "old women" and a dog, suddenly broke into my chaotic world, like a ray of light, shining into the cracks of my life...

Gan Yaoming's transformational masterpiece incorporates the seeds of magical realism between the lines, showing the most realistic social reality, paying attention to marginalized groups, and deeply exploring the meaning of "life and death" - until we are picked up from the garbage can of life, we don't know that we are deeply loved by people far away.

At the moment when "The Summer When General Winter Comes" draws to an end, we see a pair of hands slowly rising up, using emotions and words filled with comfort to pick us up as we continue to fall in the frozen world of the wilderness.

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◎ Celebrity recommendation

The forgotten and damaged embark on a doomsday carnival journey together, and the resonance of female emotions changes the trajectory of reality like magic. This is the most resolute resistance to evil, so funny, so innocent, so wonderful, and so sad.

— Zhou Jianing (writer and English literature translator)

This story takes place in summer, yet possesses the resilience to stand firm in winter. It is a dark allegory for kindergarten, a version of Thelma & Louise for the elderly. The lighthearted yet powerful "Little Devil" is not just about technique, but also about the courage one must have in life to fight back against all those moments of weakness when they bow to "others."

—— Wang Zhanhei (young writer, winner of the inaugural Blancpain Ideal Country Literary Award)

Stories aren't necessarily somewhere far away; they might lie within our lives, within our spirits. Within our lives and spirits, countless forgotten and distant places remain undiscovered. Gan Yaoming is one such tireless explorer. Gan Yaoming's work is primarily concerned with imagination and symbolism, and his focus is on questions of human existence.

In a sense, the mixture of magic and reality in his works constitutes a unique symbolic world that is both aesthetic and realistic.

—— Liang Hong (author, professor at Renmin University of China)

2018-06-01

贵州人民出版社

Motie·Wenzhi Books

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9787221150646