Winged ghost

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Your book doesn't mention the name Winged Ghost, does it?

The vast majority of Snow Country people have two hands, two feet, and one head, known as the Five Bodies. When describing worship, Snow Country people often use the phrase "five limbs prostrating themselves on the ground," meaning all five parts of their body touch the ground, just like what I'm doing now. Actually, it's bowing, but you can see that in addition to these five limbs, I have two that can't touch the ground at all. These are my wings.

Of course you can laugh at me, there is no need to cover your mouth secretly. My wings are indeed ugly and small, and cannot compare with your wings. But when I was in the Snow Country, this pair of small wings was enough to make me serve a lifetime of hard labor and become a lifelong prisoner.

【Editor's Recommendation】

"The beginning of 'Winged Ghost' is the most satisfying beginning I've ever written, and it's the beginning of all my novels." - Winged Ghost is the debut novel by novelist Shuang Xuetao, winner of the first Chinese Film Novel Award. The author completed the manuscript eight years ago, at the age of 28, when he was still a bank clerk. In his own words, "When I wrote 'Winged Ghost', I never considered myself to be involved in literature. In fact, I had no idea what I was doing; I was just excited about it. 'Winged Ghost' inspired me to write my subsequent novels."

"A writer is a solitary being. I've kept this in mind since I wrote my first novel." Like a child building a fortress out of fine sand on the seashore, Shuang Xuetao uses simple, vivid imagery (a snowy land, a broken valley, a deep well, winged ghosts, a valley demon...) to create a whimsical world of blizzards. The characters are vivid and passionate, imbued with an indescribable, immense energy.

The cut-off wings and the enslaved winged ghosts are a beautiful fable about freedom and resistance. In the extremely cold snow country created by Shuang Xuetao, the winged ghosts are slaves trapped in deep wells and have lost their freedom. They have no names and no words... The whole story is full of doubts about history and questions about heroes: "Why should the strong enslave the weak?"

2019-01-01

广西师范大学出版社

Ideal Country

168

9787559813268