The fragrance of pine

【Editor's Recommendation】
★A collection of Wangma Caidan’s posthumous novels.
★ His son, Jiu Meichenglie, personally compiled and selected the works, wrote a heartfelt preface, and included an article in memory of Chen Danqing as a postscript. Highly recommended by Jia Zhangke, Li Jingze, and others.
★Includes "The Fragrance of Pine Wood", one of the "Best Chinese Novels" of 2023 by the Chinese Society of Novelists; includes the novel of the same name "Searching for Zhimei Gengdeng", the film that won the Golden Goblet Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Twelve acts of human song, twelve cycles of fate. From the frost and snow of Tibet to the creatures of the snow-capped mountains, from words and sounds to images and videos, Wangma Caidan tirelessly travels and records with his camera and pen.
With a chaotic, soft, and poetic brushstroke, he depicts the innocence and impermanence of life, and sings of the loss and compassion of a homeland. "I reconstruct this world within the world of fiction. This world is very important to me. Compared to the overly rational and rigid reality, it presents a certain chaos, softness, and poetry." (Wanma Caidan)
★ "I am a stud sheep", "A piece of red cloth", "Searching for Akatouba"... with innocent and effortless magical colors, it breaks the boundaries of life and death, yin and yang, region, reality and illusion, and uses calm narration to reproduce the real life and illusory dreams of you and me.
★“The story will be told when we are on the road, for our journey is long.” Going upstream, we pick up the half-told story again, and through words we reach Wangma Caidan’s inner artistic world again, and see the “lotus with tenacious vitality” on the pure land again.
【Content Introduction】
"The Fragrance of Pine Wood" is a collection of Wangma Caidan's posthumous novels. It includes and organizes representative works of great significance in different stages of Wangma Caidan's literary creation as a novelist, such as "The Fragrance of Pine Wood", his posthumous novel that has not been published during his lifetime, his debut novel "Man and Dog", his famous Chinese novel "The Dream of a Wandering Singer", and the novel of the same name in the film "Looking for Zhimei Gengdeng", etc. Among them, the works were selected and determined by Wangma Caidan's son, the young director Jigme Chenglie, with commemorative articles written by Jigme Chenglie and Chen Danqing as the preface and postscript, striving to restore a classic writer who was truly sincere, talented, innocent and compassionate and his literary heritage.
The highly anticipated imported sheep flown in, the wandering singer who has been searching for the girl of his dreams all his life, the transparent snow mountain elves, the teenage love affair that seems as if the sun is the moon, the road movie that goes on and on... From the creatures of the snowy mountains to the frost of Tibet, from words and sounds to pictures and images, we trace the river upstream and pick up the half-told story again. Through words, we reach Wangma Caidan's inner artistic world again and see the "lotus with tenacious vitality" on the pure land again.
【Celebrity Recommendation】
Therefore, I understand why he is loyal to and understands humble souls, but does not exaggerate their misery. Instead, he makes people laugh - the kind of laughter caused by extreme kindness. In his images, the moments that make me laugh all bring out Wanma's character, which is calm, introverted and humble.
Chen Danqing, writer and artist. To some extent, Wangma Tseden has brought a new geographical and aesthetic landscape to Chinese film and literature. His work originates from his homeland, yet remains open to those of us who live on this land. On my creative journey, Wangma Tseden is never alone.
Director and screenwriter Jia Zhangke, Wanma Tseden, places "voice" at the center of his art. He observes the voice of each individual, seeing each voice struggling to reach their own heart and the world. Voices arise from silence and return to silence. It is precisely for these finite voices, reaching toward the infinite, that Wanma became a novelist.
——Li Jingze, writer and critic

2024-05-01

中信出版集团

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9787521764246