Man at the Center of the Earth

Tong Mo's latest novel: The Man at the Center of the Earth
◎ "Unlucky and ominous" women overturn the ancient rules of the mountains. Zina, a female leader who was exiled from her family, meets the nameless "Daughter of Zimo" and unites many mountain women in distress. She opens the channel to awaken the ancient gods and embarks on a journey of awakening and remembrance.
◎The elegy of life flowing from Daliang Mountain describes the life conditions of human beings. It takes the image of the "Ghost Mother" in the legend of Daliang Mountain as the starting point, integrates the social changes in the 1930s, and makes an imaginative description of the life conditions in Daliang Mountain a hundred years ago.
◎He is Tieha, and also Feng Shihai; he is a Han Chinese from the border area, and also a slave who escaped after being trapped in the Yi area for fifteen years.
How does he face his rootlessness in troubled times? Is it possible for a person, after being tossed aside by fate, to regain the meaning of life through the imagination of "hope"?
◎A story is not only a narration, but also the story of the narrator. If one day we lose literature, those unknown people in history, and their feelings and stories, will most likely return to permanent silence.
The mute things from the past will not disappear. They begin mutely, then grow louder, merging into different voices until they shatter, but as time passes, those fragments will remain, entering the future. If the mute things of the past are polished by the power of humanity in desperate situations, they will not disappear.
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Introduction:
For centuries, in the mountains of Simigahuo, in the high pastures and vast forests, in eagle-nest houses and beside fire pits, there have lived these black people who call themselves Nuosu. They call themselves "people from the center of the earth."
In the 1930s, in the Daliang Mountains, a slave named Tieha decided to escape. From Simigahuo to Shanlinggang, he witnessed the continuous decline of the mountains and the world. "Guardian" Enza gradually lost himself in the cycle of lucidity and delusion. The greedy Oche continued to plunder. "Zimo's Daughter" was forced to enter Deblomo with "hope" to awaken the mountains' rebirth...
Ziziniza's story is not history, but it will become the mother of history.
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"The 'Liangshan' in the book is my fiction, a place of experimentation where human existence and predicament unfold their destiny, and where language unfolds its own destiny. All the characters I created are close to myself - their souls are not different from mine, just as complex, hesitant, and full of contradictions; like me, limitations are engraved on almost every character, their despair and hope are the same." - Tong Mo

2024-03-27

上海文艺出版社

422

9787532189526