In November 2008, a novel "Dark Calculation" won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award in the controversial case, and its author was Mai Jia. Mai Jia is the only contemporary Chinese writer after Lu Xun, Qian Zhongshu and Zhang Ailing to be selected into the British "Penguin Classics" library.
However, after the "foreign atmosphere" was added, this writer did not choose to mass-produce works when the future was bright, and made a big stride into the international market, but did the opposite.
He chose to return to the small mountain village of his hometown, looked back on the painful childhood time of the past, precipitated eight years of time, and used five years to polish a work that touched people's hearts and human nature - "Life Sea Sea".
"Life Sea Sea" is a new novel launched by the Mai family in 2019, with suspense and grandeur. The background of the story spans nearly a century, cleverly using the perspective of a child, around a mystery to be solved, telling a person's life through the times, and the bizarre story hides a long sigh of life.
Life is like the sea, loaded with times, legends and people's hearts, both the cruelty of daily breeding and the kindness brought by time. "Life Sea Sea" is called extremely depressed and healing by the majority of netizens, and the 10 classic quotations in it are even more direct to people's hearts.
1, the most valuable life in the world, I was scolded as a eunuch are still alive, you die what dies, it is not your turn.
2. Temptation emerges like grass in the snow.
3) He described himself as a dreamer who had slept with all the women he had ever met in his dreams. He described his favorite woman as "braised oil meat" who was willing to die as long as she could eat it.
4, life sea sea is a Hokkien language, is a kind of exclamation of life, meaning that life is as dazed as the sea, always up and down, there are many uncertain factors.
5, people live a lifetime, always have to go through a lot of things, some things like air, drifting with the wind, leaving no trace; some things like watermarks, left for a while; and some things are like woodcuts, carved up, can not be lost.
6, life is a press, squeezing people into slag, but people themselves are the number one parts in the press.
7, there is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, to love life after recognizing the truth of life.
8, happiness is to nourish their own hearts, not to nourish other people's eyes.
9. Most people have spoken all their lives, and only the last words of the dying words are heard; if no one listens to the last words of the last words, the person will almost live in vain.
10, there is no perfect life, imperfect is life.
Mai Jia once said: "I feel that as a writer, the most difficult and the most important thing to do is how to turn some of my feelings into the feelings of the public, so that particularity becomes a universality." ”
In the work "Life Sea Sea", the Mai family undoubtedly did this very successfully. Through the perspective and feelings of "I", in the confusing plot, see all the changes in the world. As a result, the distance between the reader and the characters and lives in the book is shortened.
This also makes the novel both fascinating and approachable to read. And the most approachable truth of the book is that no one can have a perfect life, but no one will stop moving forward.
Mai Jia's "Life Sea and Sea", which lasted for five years, from the content of the novel to the language to all aspects, can see the traces of the author's meticulous polishing, which is very rare in the current society of quick success, careful reading, quite a kind of childhood reading "Old Things in the South of the City" The tone floats in the heart.
In the work "Life Sea sea", the Mai family sees all the changes in the world through the perspective and feelings of "I" and in the confusing plot. As a result, the distance between the reader and the characters and lives in the book is shortened. This also makes the novel both fascinating and approachable to read.
After reading it, Mo Yan was full of praise, and also said: In this novel, the Mai family has shaken out the bottom of the family.
Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan: The reason why "Life Sea and Sea" is fascinating is because the characters in this book seem to be friends around us, and they are so kind.
Dong Qing pushed away all the presiding work for him
At the "Life Sea Sea" press conference, Dong Qing pushed off all the hosts in order to participate. At the press conference, when Dong Qing read the apology letter written by the Mai family to his father, dong Qing burst into tears.
After reading this novel, Dong Qing said: Sitting alone in front of the study, facing the computer but not turning on the light, the mood is very low, but at this time, he is the most real self, and he also chose to cry bitterly. This novel pokes at the softest part of Dong Qing's heart.
After Gao Xiaosong read the book "Life Sea Sea", Gao Xiaosong's evaluation of "Life Sea Sea" was particularly high: The Mai family teacher led us across a peak.
Everyone has a lot of feelings after watching "Life Sea Sea", but they have found the courage to live, which is the magic of this book! Even after going through vicissitudes, but not forgetting the original intention, and finally finding yourself!
Someone said: "If you feel that your fate is hateful, you have contradictions and conflicts with your fate, and even when you can't stand it, you may wish to go to see "Life Sea Sea". "Life sea sea" is a Hokkien phrase that describes life as complex and changeable, but it doesn't stop there.
This book will break your pride and teach you the courage to face the harshness of life and the beauty of time at the same time.
I love Life Sea because it succeeds in writing non-existent characters as your friends, making them live with you and making it impossible for you to escape from them.
One person commented on the book: "After reading "The Sea of Life", I feel that all difficulties have become less difficult.
Mo Yan once said: "The fascinating thing about this novel is that it is written about people who do not exist, as if they are your friends."
You have a life, but Sea of Life will take you into thousands of lives.
Here, I sincerely recommend this book to everyone. Whether it is for you now, children in school, or adults entering middle age, this book will have some touches and gains, so that you can learn to "reconcile" and regain the courage to face life.
"Life Sea Sea", "Decryption", "Dark Calculation", "Sound of the Wind" 4 books add up to a total of 139 yuan, a meal money, but can bring you different feelings. And it can also be passed on from generation to generation, collected or sent to friends, which is very valuable!
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