I deliver express in Beijing

In the twenty years since he entered the society and started working, Hu Anyan has traveled all over the country, including Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shanghai, Beijing and other places. He has worked as a courier, a night shift picker, a convenience store clerk, a security guard, a bicycle shop salesperson, a clothing store shopping guide, and a gas station attendant... He turned the daily details and the joys and sorrows of his work into a sincere self-narration, recording the hard work, selfishness, warmth and righteousness of an ordinary person in life.
A year spent picking packages at night for a logistics company left a deep physiological mark on him: "This job also makes you irritable. Staying up late and overworking can significantly reduce your ability to control your emotions... I already feel my brain isn't working properly, mainly my reactions are slowing down and my memory is starting to fade." During his two years delivering packages in Beijing, he "viewed himself as a delivery machine earning 30 yuan an hour. If I didn't meet my rated output, I'd get mad and frustrated."
But he ultimately realized that a life filled with resentment wasn't worth living. These work experiences, written in retrospect, are imbued with his attitude and reflections on life and the world, aiming to express his personal confrontation and affirmation of the meaning of life amidst limited choices and a confined reality: the many ordinary and profound moments in life are more decisive than the many troubling aspects of reality.
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✨Douban 2023 Book of the Year NO.1, Douban 2023 Author of the Year ✨Sanlian Reading Book Award 2023 Work of the Year ✨One Way Street Bookstore Literature Award 2023 Work is a means of survival, not the purpose of life. Twenty years of a "bottom-level" worker, the unknown inner world of a courier "I Deliver Express in Beijing" should be included in the must-read books for citizens' lives, so that more people can understand the power of all walks of life behind the operation of society.
——People's Daily

2023-03-01

湖南文艺出版社

Pu Rui Culture

296

9787572609268