"They": Multiple emotions intertwine, exploring the warmth and hidden pain in women's lives

Hello readers, the book I'm going to introduce today is Them.

01 Content Introduction

Earthly life is trapped in the feet of every woman who wants to dance, no matter how fate is turbulent, they still look forward to the future and are full of desire.

From his story, we can understand that they, women, can only stand and their souls can always stand and their hearts can be stored only if they do not lose their self-esteem and their personalities are independent.

"They" is the work of contemporary literary master Yan Lianke, who has fulfilled his dream for ten years!

Ten years later, he used his painstaking words to describe the fate of different women in a land, and glimpsed what roles and how oriental women played in the history of hundreds of years, how they lived, and how they became what they are today.

The book contains the life stories of his mothers: mothers, aunts, peers: sisters and sisters-in-law, and his life stories with his granddaughters.

From the years of delay and change in their lives, we can glimpse the difficulties of life that they have to face as women, and the unique brilliance of their own women.

Women were wrapped up in this great era and began their lives and livelihoods. The wheels roll, life is like a stream...

02 Author Profile

Yan Lianke

Born in 1958 in Song County, Henan Province, he was conscripted into the army in 1978, began writing in 1979, and changed careers in 2004.

He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Chinese University and a visiting professor of Chinese culture at Sin Weijian at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

He has won the 1st and 2nd Lu Xun Literature Award and the 3rd Lao She Literature Award;

Shortlisted for the 2012 French Fermina Literary Award, and shortlisted for the Booker International Literary Prize three times in 2013, 2016 and 2017;

He won the 12th Malaysia Flower Trail World Chinese Literature Award, the 2014 Kafka International Literature Award, the 2015 Japan Twitter Literature Award, and the 6th World Chinese Novel Awards "Dream of the Red Chamber Award" in 2016.

His works have been translated into more than 30 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, French, English, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc., and there are more than 100 foreign language versions.

03 Original golden sentence

When kindness exists as a human virtue, it is more likely to attract tragedy in women. Men's goodness often slides into and falls into the abyss of incompetence.

And the kindness of women and women is mostly doomed to the sadness of their lives. It is not to say that evil is the driving force of the beauty of life, but to say that what is the soil that makes the apples growing on the earth bitter, and let the sweet apricots and pears hang on the trees, or the apricots and pears, and once they are plucked and fall into the hands of people and the world, they become dried apricots, dried pears or rot?

—— Quoted from chapter: They

The epoch was vast and complete, and every part of society overlapped and coincided with every part of the individual's humanity. And every component of human nature, including thoughts, emotions, spirits, souls, etc., is also the composition and distribution of the components of the times.

At that time, no one could get rid of the marriage and love set by the times, and no one could get rid of the times and inexplicably hate, hate, honor and disgrace and enterprising.

It is not that memory triumphs over time, but that everyone's memory is harsher or more magnificent than reality. No reality can be richer than a person's memory. When time becomes memory, it is created beyond reality.

I can't forget the beauty of my eldest sister's quiet and quiet reading. I believe that the eldest sister has found another world in the book. That world was more novel, rare, and idealistic than the reality in which she lived.

—— Quoted from the chapter: Eldest sister, second sister and sister-in-law