Modern Express News (reporter Zheng Wenjing Zhang Wenying) In early 2022, Yilin Publishing House launched a new novel "Bemba" by the famous writer Liu Liangcheng, and the "Works of Liu Liangcheng" (exclusive collector's edition) led by him was also released as a whole. The Modern Express reporter learned that this version includes all of Liu Liangcheng's important works for the first time, fully presenting the whole picture of his creation and spiritual world.
"'Bemba' is my childhood epic that I wrote to myself"
More than a decade ago, Liu Liangcheng traveled to Xinjiang and Buxar Mongol Autonomous County, the hometown of hero Jiang geer. Since then, Liu Liangcheng has begun to read "Jianger" and has a thought: "Write a naïve novel." Years later, the idea eventually became the novel Bemba. The book is Liu Liangcheng's latest novel after being nominated for the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award, and won the 2021 Huadi Literature List annual long work.
"Bemba" is set in the background of "Jianger", creating a country of Bemba that does not age or die, and everyone lives at the age of twenty-five. The protagonist of the story is a few children, moving, hide-and-seek, dreaming, children to make the cruel war life, into a fun game. In the course of the game, run to the 25-year-old party, from all over the world, one by one.
Liu Liangcheng said: "'Bemba' is the most enjoyable novel I have written, and it is also the childhood epic I wrote to myself, and the most innocent time in my writing history."
"Liu Liangcheng's Works" (exclusive collector's edition), including all important works
It is understood that the collector's edition of "Liu Liangcheng's Works" led by "Bemba" was exclusively launched by Yilin Publishing House, including the novels "Bemba", "Virtual Earth", "Chiseling The Void", "Carrying Words", the essay collection "A Man's Village" and "In Xinjiang", and the interview essay collection "Talking about Things on earth to heaven", including all of Liu Liangcheng's important works, and completely presenting the whole picture and spiritual world of Liu Liangcheng's creation.
According to the Translation Forest Agency, the exclusive collector's edition was launched in advance with four kinds, including "Bemba", "One Man's Village", "Virtual Earth" and "Chiseled Void". Among them, "One Man's Village" is Liu Liangcheng's representative work, and this new edition is the first time in more than 20 years since the publication of the book that the author has revised and revised more than 62 places in the original manuscript. In addition to the above four works, the new versions of "In Xinjiang", "Carrying Words", and "Talking about Things on earth to the sky" will also be released one after another.
Liu Liangcheng emotionally wrote in the new edition of the "Afterword", "The seven-volume version of 'Liu Liangcheng's Works' published by the Translation Forest Society, except for the new long "Bemba", the rest are revised and reprinted. With this revision, I also had the opportunity to read through the old works. Life is scattered in a lifetime, and if it weren't for these words, I really didn't know that I would have imagined the world like this at that time. If I hadn't written it at that time, or if I hadn't written it again, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to become my own reader. ”
It is worth mentioning that Liu Liangcheng's set of books is designed by Zhu Yingchun, the winner of "The World's Most Beautiful Book" and the author of "Bug Poems" and "Bugs Side". The word "Bemba" on the cover of "Bemba" is crawled out by a bug, full of spirituality.
(Courtesy of publisher)