Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise

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A heartbreaking yet helpless true story.

This is the Chinese novel of the year that touched millions of readers with its literary masterpiece of living in the face of death.

It is highly recommended by many scholars, writers and social celebrities including Li Yinhe, Dai Jinhua, Luo Yijun, Zhang Yueran, Feng Tang, Zhan Hongzhi, Jiang Fangzhuo and Shi Hang.

Painful experiences are so difficult to share, fortunately there is literature in this world.

I went downstairs to get my composition for Teacher Li to review. He took it out, and I was forced to scribble it on the wall. The teacher said nine words: "If you can't do it, maybe your mouth can." I said five words: "No, I can't." He then stuffed it in. It felt like drowning. After I could speak again, I said to the teacher, "I'm sorry." I felt like I had failed at my homework.

Little Fang Siqi lived in a life of luxury, her face as beautiful as she could imagine her future to be. Li Guohua, a renowned cram school Chinese teacher, was her neighbor in the same upscale residential building. Little Fang Siqi, a literary admirer, also admired the well-read Teacher Li.

One day, Teacher Li said, "You're so good at this. Why don't you just hand me an essay every week? I won't charge you a weekly fee." Siqi obediently went downstairs. The teacher was waiting for her at home, but there was no paper or pen on the table.

Siqi's first love was Teacher Li. Because Teacher Li turned her over and stuffed his thing inside. That Teacher's Day, Siqi was only thirteen years old, and the world was different from what she knew. If this was love, why did it feel violent? Why did it feel broken? Why did the teacher keep replacing one female student after another? If this wasn't love, how could the learned Teacher Li do this and still be so confident, unquestioning, and guilt-free?

The story must be told anew. Liu Yiting, Fang Siqi's twin sister, receives a call from the police to bring Fang Siqi back home, having lost her mind and been declared insane. Through Siqi's diary, Yiting learns what Siqi has seen and thought over the past five years...

Xu Yiwen, who married into the Qian family, is a close friend of the two girls, a woman in her twenties who is both their literary mentor and a silent victim of her husband's domestic violence... After entering university, Guo Xiaoqi still loves his former high school tutor, Li Guohua. This gentle and refined tutor is more than just the respected teacher he is often portrayed as...

This is a striking and unique novel, written by a highly sensitive and close-up eyewitness, who preserves the entire incident like a "surviving specimen." The book repeatedly uses the perspective of the victim to closely examine the pain of having something precious taken away from you—and the plunderer takes pleasure in doing so.

2024-03-01

北京联合出版公司

Motie Books

272

9787559614636