Moses on the Plain

"Moses on the Plain" is the magnum opus of novelist Shuang Xuetao, a collection of ten strikingly stylish short and medium-length stories, with the title work being the most classic. On Christmas Eve 1995 on Yanfen Street, a mystery hidden by heavy snow, a missed appointment, and a heart born in one's hand... Those banished by fate, they are the downtrodden, slipping from the gears of time, yet also the messengers, bearing the secrets of sin and punishment. Only mortal love and faith can part the waves of Yanfen Street and carve a path to redemption. Ten contemporary short story masterpieces, hidden beneath the surface of ice, wash away the dust, press down fate, and deliver souls to a rarely visited temple.
【Editor's Recommendation】
★ Novelist Shuang Xuetao's masterpiece, "Moses on the Plain," returns in a new edition—an internationally acclaimed Chinese classic and a popular IP for film and television adaptations by the original author of the film "Assassination of Novelist," with copyrights exported to multiple languages ​​including English, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. Novelist Shuang Xuetao has won numerous awards, including the inaugural Chinese Film Novel Award, the One Way Street Bookstore Literary Award for "Young Writer of the Year," and the third Blancpain Ideal Country Literary Award. Many of his works are being adapted into film and television. Loved by Yi Yangqianxi, Lei Jiayin, and Dong Zijian, it received a lengthy review from Harvard University professor David Wang, and was highly recommended by writers Zhang Yueran and Li Jingrui, who stated, "This is a work that our generation can truly leave behind."
★ Only love and faith can pave the way to redemption. The 2021 film of the same name, starring Zhou Dongyu and Liu Haoran, will be released, portraying the "Light of Moses" of ordinary people - a brain-burning original work suitable for script-killing, a difficult-to-solve suspense novel puzzle: Christmas Eve on Yanfen Street in 1995, a mystery hidden by heavy snow, a missed appointment, a heart born in the hand... A fireball fell from the sky, and the innocent promise of the two teenagers triggered an unpredictable series of storms, and the fate of everyone changed abruptly. "As long as the thoughts in your heart are true, as long as the thoughts in your heart are sincere, the mountains and the sea will make way for you." This energetic novel written with a sense of life is icy, romantic and innocent. Diao Yinan, director of "Black Coal, Thin Ice", is the producer of this blockbuster new drama, iQiyi's annual blockbuster series of the same name.
Shuang Xuetao's Yanfen Street, ten contemporary short story masterpieces hidden beneath the ice—a chilly fin-de-siècle northern landscape, depicting people lost from the gears of time: the factory scoundrel Old Ma, a father playing chess in his school uniform, my friend Andrei, the lame man on the train, the wandering poet Lao Xiao, a monk returning from prison, a girl missing in Leningrad... Yanfen Street's maze of stories depicts the struggle between good and evil, and those banished by fate, burdened with the secrets of sin and punishment, journey to report the truth. Through layers of violence and absurdity, Shuang Xuetao, with rare passion and deep emotion, salvages justice and honor for a lost world, carving a path of faith and love deep within time.
★ The brand new collector's edition, long awaited, Moses returns, designed by the famous book cover designer Lu Zhichang - simple and elegant, classic texture, the blue mud-colored wild pottery paper imported from Japan presents the touch of earth dust, the hot stamping process is elegant and timeless, perfectly interpreting the "Light of Moses", with blood on the tip of the pen and warmth in the cold.

2021-04-01

北京日报出版社

Ideal Country

288

9787547737941