Killing Ghosts

★A representative novel by Gan Yaoming.
★Won the "Top Ten Books Award" from the China Times, the Taipei International Book Fair Foundation Book Fair Award, and the Books.com.tw 2009 Chinese Writing Award.
"Killing Ghosts" is both a war narrative and a rural legend. With a touch of magical realism, a dazzling narrative technique, and a highly recognizable brushstroke, it blends history, reality, and rural legend to depict the tragic story of great times and the lives of ordinary people.
★Nobel Prize winner in Literature Mo Yan highly recommended his work and commented: Such writing is astonishing!
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In a Taiwanese village called "Guan Niu Wo" lived a primary school student named "Pa". He was six feet tall and extremely strong. He was adopted by his grandfather Liu Jinfu and was adopted as a son by a Japanese officer, Lieutenant Colonel Oni, in 1940.
With a childlike innocence, Pa witnesses through his psychic eyes the conflicts among humans, ghosts and gods in troubled times, as well as the extraordinary experiences of tiny lives in the war.
A train that can run without rails enters the village.
Whether they were training, fighting, or resting, the young soldiers never forgot to carry their family tombstones wherever they went;
The old man imprisoned himself, and hard leaf buds sprouted between his toes, spreading into a forest;
In a haunted house in Taipei after the war, Pa was sound asleep amidst the screams of ghosts, and was awakened by tranquility.
"Compared to the wounded and wailing soldiers on the battlefield, the screams of ghosts are nothing"...

2020-08-01

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing

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9787208164703