city
It's a breeding ground for dreams.
Even if you live on the edge of the city,
Your dreams are also colorful
Compared to the quiet villages deep in the mountains,
The breathing of the city is rapid,
It urges your steps.
Recently, the famous writer Fan Wen's novella selection "Shangri-La Inn" was launched by October Literature and Art Publishing House.
This selected collection of novellas contains five novellas. The early works "Blue Glacier" and "Shangri-La Inn" write about the thrilling journey of backpackers to visit the glacier, and the redemption experience of a middle-aged man in a frustrated city who mistakenly enters Taoyuan.
His recent works "Eraser" and "Guan Shan Farewell" are more close to urban life. "Eraser" is a metaphor for the loss of the old man's memory and the urgency of hitting workers to change their social identity; in "Farewell to The Mountain", the desires and interests of urban men and women are intertwined, and there is also a valuable line of truth in the wandering of people's hearts.
Old age, sickness, poverty, trekking hard... This collection shows these real spiritual dilemmas and tries to give relief to a weary mind.
About the Author
Fan Wen, born in November 1962 in Sichuan, graduated from the Chinese Department of Southwest Normal University (now Southwest University). He is currently working for the Yunnan Writers Association and is a national first-class writer.
He began publishing in 1986. Nearly 6 million words of literary works on various themes and genres have been published. As a representative of the "Tibet Trilogy" that reflects the history of Tibet over the past hundred years- "Water Milk Earth", "Compassion for the Earth", and "Earth Song". Among them, "Water Milk Earth" has been translated into French and published, and "Compassion for the Earth" has been translated into English. Another novel, Bise Zhai, which reflects the history of the construction of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, was translated and published in Italian, and "My Blood and My Soil" and "Eyes of Chongqing" are two newly published novels reflecting the history of the War of Resistance. He has won many important domestic literary awards such as the nomination award of the 7th, 8th and 9th Mao Dun Literature Awards, the 8th and 11th "October" Literature Awards, the 4th People's Literature Novel Biennial Award, and so on.
Excerpts:
In the face of the snowy mountains, any words of praise will seem vulgar and cheesy, and you will only be in a daze. Snowy mountains are suitable for people in a daze. Looking at each other is not tired, only Jingting Mountain, that is also a feeling of being in a daze. At this time, time often stands still, and people do not know the heavens and the earth. The dirt in your soul is washed over and over again by the high snowy mountains, and you even feel that you will become more and more transparent under the reflection of the snowy mountains.
Until Aunt Na Zhen went to the flat roof of the tu palm house to simmer Sang, facing the snow mountain and shouting loudly: La!! Until the mulberry smoke of a village rises in the east and west, until the fairy Yangjin Dolma or one of its beautiful Dolmas—I can't always tell who of these twin sisters is who, they are not a question of how much they resemble, but as if one is a mirror of the other—driving cattle and sheep from the pasture over a hill, crossing three streams, walking through a field with potato blossoms, bypassing the white tower at the entrance of the village, pushing the door in the twilight, and then the money comes to the bed where I am lying, and says, Big brother, dinner. This is why people do not know what day and night, what year this year.
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Excerpt from Shangri-La Inn
Shangri-La Inn
Fan Wen
Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
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