Listen to your father

Douban

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If you ask me what "big era" means, I will tell you as my father said: "Big era is something that treats people like toys and manipulates them."

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⭐Literary prodigy Zhang Dachun's affectionate recollection of his father, Mo Yan｜Acheng｜Hou Hsiao-hsien｜Zhu Tianwen｜Mao Jian all recommended

⭐After repeated betrayal and escape, I began to go home and listen to my father

⭐Use a family history to answer the question “Where do I come from” and think about “Where am I going?”

⭐Listening to the history of our ancestors is to extend your life in another direction

⭐ “When we watch a boxing match, we think the straight punch is the climax, and the hook is often skipped. I think this book "Listening to Father" is a straight punch-style work, which can hit you directly in the heart.” - Acheng

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When I was nine years old, my father jumped into the crystal clear river.

He didn't think much about it; he simply wanted to leave that home. The moment he jumped, he felt a word he didn't yet understand: freedom. As the bubbles filled up, he remembered he couldn't swim.

This was his first attempt to escape, but it would not be his last.

Like his father and his father's father, my parents will leave and return home again and again due to personal circumstances and the times. Like many Chinese of their generation, they will leave behind delicate and complicated traces of struggle in the process of resisting certain kinds of pull.

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It is bold to say that Zhang Dachun may be the most comprehensive and versatile master among Chinese novelists - he has everything he wants and is proficient in everything.

——Leung Man-tao

Taiwanese writers' writing style and narrative language are relatively more nuanced and refined, drawing on the richness of classical Chinese. Mainland Chinese writers of this generation, on the other hand, tend to be more vigorous and untamed. Depending on the narrative style, you can see traces of history behind it. Zhang Dachun breaks these distinctions, moving freely between so-called elegant, written narratives and so-called authentic, lived-in narratives. One moment he's talking about the Book of Songs, the next he's suggesting dumplings with beef and scallions.

——Li Rui

I chose a quiet, auspicious night, with a pack of tissues at hand. I knew I couldn't control myself enough to make it past Zhaoguan. I watched intently, absorbedly, until dawn in the east, lost in Zhang Dachun's past and present lives, hoping to be his ancestor, his son, and, ideally, Zhang Dachun.

——Maojian

Who among us has ever played with novels like he did? He had no time for play, like a boy sailing to the end of the world in search of the Golden Fleece. But for the first time, he was so honest, willingly abandoning his air sign's cleverness and lightness, recording everything he heard, and telling his unborn son with complete honesty about his father, and his father's father. For the first time, he put aside his playfulness and acted more like a responsible father than anyone else. For the first time, he abandoned his usual theme of truth and fiction. For the first time, he exposed his weaknesses.

——Zhu Tianwen

2023-09-01

文汇出版社

New Classic Culture

240

9787549639229