Land of Blood and Honey

Douban Author of the Year Douban Chinese Literature of the Year (Non-fiction)
Winner of the Guanxia Contemporary Young Creator Path Award; Harvest Magazine Non-Fiction of the Year; Literary Newspaper Book of the Year; New Weekly Hardcore Reading Club Travel Literature of the Year; Asia Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year; Spring Breeze Reading List New Knowledge Work of the Year; Sohu Culture Book of the Year (Documentary)
Hall of Fame·Annual Humanities Top Ten Books Searchlight Book Reviewers' Book List·Annual Top Ten Chinese and Foreign Literature Works·
“In the journey of life, there is always a heavy snowfall quietly falling into dreams.”
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The Lost Satellite, a new work by Liu Zichao, travels through the Balkan Peninsula, where blood and honey flow. Recommended by Bei Dao, Li Jian, Liang Wendao, Xu Zhiyuan, Zhou Yijun, and Zhu Xun.
"Liu Zichao's new work, In the Land of Blood and Honey, further expands the horizons of human existence from a unique perspective. He writes better and better. As a Chinese reader, I am proud of him and look forward to his journey to find a foreign land." - Bei Dao
☆Liu Zichao, the author of "The Lost Satellite", sets out again to cross the Balkan Peninsula, the "powder keg of Europe"☆ Crossing the long shadow of history, arriving at the scene of time full of bullet holes - no place is the love and hate more intense than here☆ A travel literature that roams around, but tells stories of searching for home - in this uncertain present, where do we find home?
☆ A landmark work of travel literature: The letters on license plates, the coffee grounds in cups, the scents wafting from the streets—all hold the secrets of the world. ☆ Highly recommended by Bei Dao, Li Jian, Liang Wendao, Luo Xin, Yu Minhong, Xu Zhiyuan, Zhou Yijun, and Zhu Xun, this is the latest work by the winner of the One Way Street Bookstore Literary Award and Young Writer of the Year, "refreshing our perspective on today's world."
☆ Includes travel route map and Balkan dictionary, quickly understand the past and present of Balkans; 50 travel photos, vividly capture the expression of Balkans, as if you were there in person
From north to south, from winter to spring, we journey through the Balkan Peninsula, known as the "powder keg of Europe." Eight countries and 23 towns, witnessing once again the intricacies and vastness of the world.
This was the birthplace of the ancient Greek and Byzantine civilizations that laid the foundation for European civilization. It was also the site of the clash between Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Islam. It was a battlefield where great powers met, and a crucible for the clash and contest between the ideologies of socialism and capitalism.
The past is fleeting. Follow Liu Zichao's footsteps, along the path where modern history began, to a land of blood and honey. As the train traverses the dark folds of the valley, the ghosts of history appear unnoticed, the afterimages of empires ripple in the bright green river, and humanity's love and hate emerge vividly before your eyes.
This is a travelogue that roams the world, yet tells stories of people searching for home. Queers and poets, refugees and drug dealers, murderers and victims, believers and businessmen all appear.
In Slovenia, he stumbled into a poetry salon and witnessed how poets used language to rebuild their homes. Late at night in Montenegro, a young telephone operator busied herself ordering pizzas for distant Americans, having never tasted one herself. Young Croatians, still dreaming of Yugoslavia, could fix anything except themselves. A Bosnian bank employee, choosing to "lay flat," loudly questioned young Chinese people, "Why do you live in China and lay flat?" He met the Serbian e-commerce godfather, who felt the tide of globalization and saw a world smooth and unobstructed. He encountered a generation raised during the Greek economic crisis, chanting left-wing slogans and proclaiming, "We are a Balkan nation, too."
The Balkans have become more than just a geographical concept; they're more like an adjective, imbued with complex meanings of pain, struggle, quest, and hope. Traversing the long shadows of history, arriving at bullet-riddled sites of time, collecting the bloody stories of those displaced along the way, we explore a more universal question, one that began in the Balkans but concerns us all: In this uncertain present, where is home?
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Liu Zichao's new work, "Land of Blood and Honey," further expands the horizons of human existence from a unique perspective. "He gets better and better with each passing day. As a Chinese-speaking reader, I'm proud of him and look forward to exploring foreign lands." —Poet Bei Dao. Liu Zichao has shattered my prejudices about travel writing. His new book remains as brilliant as ever. The accounts he records of his observations are unpretentious and vivid, but more than that, I'm even more interested in his reflections, because the author's vision, thoughts, and even heart determine the depth and meaning of travel. —Renowned singer Li Jian. In just five years, Liu Zichao has reshaped the landscape and landscape of Chinese travel writing with his astonishing writing skills. Renowned media personality Liang Wendao's broad reach, vivid sense of the times, historical reflections steeped in time, and composed narratives so composed they almost feel theatrical have set a benchmark for future travel writing in almost every respect. Peking University History Professor Luo Xin: In the burgeoning field of travel writing in the Chinese-language world, Zichao is a name that cannot be ignored. His curiosity, insight, hesitation, and habitual self-absorption all exude a unique charm. He is the most outstanding travel writer of his generation. Renowned writer Xu Zhiyuan: Writers like Liu Zichao accelerate our understanding of the world. Time and again, he makes arduous journeys, deeply immerses himself in local culture and history, and through exquisite and pertinent writing, he unveils the world's mysteries and stirs our desire to know more. After reading Zichao's book, I always hope that I can follow his route and write such a book myself. - Yu Minhong, founder of New Oriental Zichao keeps on the road, opening up the small differences in the world's great similarities for us, and turning the unfamiliar into something that can be understood. - Well-known writer and documentary director Zhou Yijun Zichao is doing what I want to do but cannot do: looking back at history, gazing at the present, and awakening the future. - Zhu Xun, a well-known CCTV host When modern people are accustomed to enjoying the convenience of information on the Internet, he insists on entering the scene in person and recreating the journey with literature. The circumstances of the people he witnessed and wrote about refreshed our coordinates and perspectives for viewing the world today. And those unfamiliar place names on the edge and in the cracks of the world are also connected to us because of the presence of a Chinese writer. - Award speech for the One-Way Street Literary Award

2024-10-01

文汇出版社

New Classic Culture

400

9787549643295