The White Elephant in the Sea
Personal struggle and life
Flows on both sides of the ocean
Love, affection and affection
Twinkling in the midst of youthful life
Hope, despair and hope
Recently, Ling Lan's collection of novels,"White Elephant in the Sea," was published by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House. Together, the nine novels form an immigrant ukiyo-e, where the struggle of the individual is so fragile in the face of the contingency of life, and the enthusiasm of people to survive is so strong, creating a sense of mystery and tragedy of fate.
This is Ling Lan's newly completed collection of novels, in which "White Elephant in the Sea" tells the story of a parent's emotional breakdown from the perspective of a child, the father is running around for years in order to make a living, and the mother's red apricot is out of the wall to cause a rift between the husband and wife; "Chao Lai" tells the different fate trajectories of a pair of girlfriends, telling the polyphonic tragedy caused by old illness and drug abuse in a double-line form;
"Tourbillon" writes about the throbbing of adolescents and adolescents, curiosity about the opposite sex and exploration of sex, behind which is the heroine's dissatisfaction and resistance to the state of existence; "Disappearing" and "Tourbillon" have a common heroine, the difference is the perspective, "Disappearing" tells the story of a piano genius girl who finally decided not to endure the arranged life path after her parents divorced, and completed her rebellion in the way of disappearance.
In "Fireworks Cold", the heroine Lily's "partner husband" died suddenly due to illness, she went through a short period of depression, in the memory and concern for reality, regained the beauty of life; "Leopard" showed the charm of life through a small couple's heart path that was resentful due to miscarriage and efforts to bridge; "Jet Lag" wrote about a widowed housewife who suddenly fell into a coma, and the husband's yearning and desire for normal family life in the process of caring for his wife and children and in-depth self-examination; "Pingju" through an old friend gathering during the epidemic. Reviewing a lawsuit triggered by a technical espionage case, showing mutual assistance and family affection...
About the Author:
Ling Lan, whose real name is Xie Linglan, graduated from the Department of Chinese of Peking University in 1991 and the Business School of the City University of New York in 1997. In recent years, he has begun to write literary. He won the 2016 Tencent Everyone "Writer of the Year" Award and was nominated for the 7th "Flower City Literature Award".
Wonderful Digest: Excerpt from "The White Elephant in the Sea"
The other side of the ocean is still brightly lit, like a mirage shining in the night.
Wave after wave of tides, with mysterious power, devoured the white elephant in the hearts of the strangers
Every time I drive on Long Island Highway 495, a gentle sadness rises in my heart, and this time too.
Driving to See My Dad on Cold Water Street, the cause was that Peter Leung, a police officer in Dong Egg Town, called me, "Your dad defaulted on his mortgage from the bank and threatened the police with a gun." Peter Leung used to be my high school classmate and first love boyfriend. After answering the phone, I couldn't go to work anymore, so I immediately took a leave of absence and drove to Long Island.
East Egg is at the easternmost tip of South Hamptonshire on Long Island, and on the map is a long Native Indian name. But everyone called it East Egg, East Egg, and the 495 highway into that area was immediately like entering a desert island, and even gas stations on both sides of the road were rare. Not far from the road is the sea, and between the sea and the road is a large gray river, the Pelican River. The banks of the river are covered with dense trees, and white herons and seagulls fly from the top of the trees. In winter, the trees on both sides of the river run out of leaves, and the wind from the sea whistles through the brown woods and blows to the highway, bringing white snow and dust.
The Pelican River runs through most of the island and finally flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The place into the sea is called Pelican Bay, where there are inaccessible beaches covered with large and small round pebbles. In the first few years of immigrating from Wuxi to New York, in the summer, our family of three always came to Pelican Bay on weekends, parking was free, and the chairs on the beach were free... It is the cheapest place to spend the summer. Years later, Pelican Bay was the only way I drove to See My Dad on Cold Water Street.
My father was nearly seventy years old, and I imagined him in front of the cottage on Cold Water Street, carrying a Remington rifle on his right shoulder, wearing the old sweatshirt that was neither black nor black and blue, with his thin legs slightly circled, his pants wrinkled, his waist pinned with a tape measure, and his hair-turning boots were covered with white paint and ash... This elderly migrant worker looks like Flushing everywhere, and he still wants to confront the police like this?
[Beauty] Ling Lan / Author
Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
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