Day 7

★ Bottari Lattes Grinzane Literary Prize (Italy) ★ Chinese Literature Media Award - Outstanding Writer of the Year ★ Asia Weekly Top Ten Novels of the Year A soul tells the story of its life in seven days. A man named Yang Fei dies, but his soul seems not to have gone far. He follows the memory-laden road through the dense fog, encountering various souls: He meets the love of his life; they once loved without restraint, only to be separated by fate. He meets the young couple living next door; their hopes and disappointments once seeped into his dreams through the thin walls of their rented room. He meets a celebrity couple from the newspaper; they were sworn enemies in life but happily play chess together in death. Finally, he meets his adoptive father, who disappeared years ago, and at last understands why he left without a word... "The Seventh Day" is Yu Hua's fifth full-length novel, a work intertwining despair and warmth, "brave without being narrow-minded, humorous without lacking solemnity." After lonely souls meet and confide in each other, their voices intertwine into a forest of stories, and they are no longer alone. "We sat around the bonfire, and in the vast silence, a thousand words secretly surged, stories of many humble lives speaking for themselves." "We sat in silence, not for anything else, but to feel that we were not one, but a group." "Like a tree returning to the forest, a drop of water returning to the river, a speck of dust returning to the soil."

2023-01-01

新星出版社

New Classic Culture

225

9787513348744