Flying Felt

【Content Introduction】
Feitu Town is a beautiful coastal town. Here live the Hua family, who run a Dutch water business; the Ye family, who run a rosewood shop; the Chen family, who sell lotus seed tea; the Axe Gang, who fight fires and disasters for the neighborhood; and a cat that fishes by sticking its tail in a fish tank.
One day, in the attic where Hualibaba lived, the tassels of a carpet fluttered like leaves in the wind. Ah, I actually own an ancient flying carpet. Hualibaba was overjoyed. A flying carpet needs to be let out often to stay healthy and in good spirits. So, at midnight, Hualibaba took the sleepwalking Hua Yanyan by the hand, mounted the flying carpet, and soared into the sky. After all these years, Hualibaba remained vigilant, as he had been for decades, guarding Hua Yanyan every night. In the sky, they resembled a strange UFO, overlooking the lights of Feitu Town...
Flying Carpet, a representative novel by Hong Kong author Xixi, tells the story of the Hua family's century-long rise and fall, recounting the mundane life of Feitu Town. Feitu Town was once a quiet and secluded corner of the world, but by chance, it learned to fly.
【Editor's Recommendation】
▲Xixi's representative novel, another winner of the World Chinese Literature Award after Wang Anyi and Chen Yingzhen.
▲Sincerely recommended by Mo Yan and Yu Hua, and deeply recommended by Liang Wendao in his column "One Thousand and One Nights".
May the town live long, and may we share the beauty of the moon, even though we are thousands of miles apart. The stories of three generations of the Hua family gently reveal the memories and character of a city, effortlessly presenting a century of Hong Kong life.
After reading "Flying Carpet," a whole family lived in my heart: the Hua Shunshui couple who never blame their children, the Hua family idiot who spends his days inexplicably researching this and that, not caring whether he succeeds or not, Ye Chongsheng who loves cats like his life, the sleepwalking Hua Yanyan, and Hua Libaba who has been protecting her for decades...
▲ A picture scroll of Feitu Town's secular customs: Dutch water shop, rosewood shop, Lotus Heart Teahouse, smallpox hospital, and villas halfway up the mountain...
▲A well-received work with a Douban score of 8.7!
It's like "Red Chamber Chats" and "Reminiscences of Tao'an Dreams"; it's like listening to a fairy tale told by my grandmother as a child; it brings to mind "McDull" and "Time and Tide." — Douban reader ▲ Book cover design by renowned Taiwanese artist Huang Ziqin, whose work has won numerous design awards, including the Golden Butterfly Award.
【Expert Recommendation】
Xixi is my old friend and teacher, she has helped me a lot.
Xixi's unbridled imagination and pioneering spirit set her apart in Chinese literature of the last century. Her scholarship, experience, and broad-mindedness imbue her works with unique humanistic value. I recommend her to my readers. — Writer Mo Yan: We have always been astonished by Xixi's success. Xixi's writing style builds on two centuries of writing that has made writers feel insecure. — Writer Yu Hua: Xixi's "Flying Carpet" is an alternative urban history, told through the lens of family history. She employs a Calvino-esque lightness to approach the weighty historical narrative of Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." At the same time, a warm and thoughtful regard for ordinary Hong Kong life, similar to the Hong Kong film "Time Thieves," permeates her work. — Professor Yu Bin, School of Literature, Nanjing University: There was a time when, whenever someone asked, "Does Hong Kong have literature? Does Hong Kong have any great novelists?" I would answer, "Yes, Xixi." — Writer Liang Wendao: Xixi is Hong Kong's dreamer. —Writer Wang Anyi: Thank you for her boundless curiosity and passion, her profound talent, her kindness and innocence. You have allowed me, and millions of other readers, to witness that literature can truly make the world a better place. —Writer and broadcaster Ma Shifang: Thank you for your boundless curiosity and passion, your profound talent, your kindness and innocence. You have allowed me, and millions of other readers, to witness that literature can truly make the world a better place.

2022-03-01

译林出版社

Movable Type Culture

518

9787544788946