May you be the wind, blowing up the white sails; may you be the boat, cutting through the blue waves. Life is smiling in front of you, bravely step forward and embrace the colorful life.
In 2019, after 8 years, the Mao Dun Literature Award Mai Jia re-emerged with his new book "Life Sea".
"The Sea of Life" is a book that both frustrates your self-esteem and teaches you the "sharp blade" of brave thought
"The Sea of Life" chronicles the life of a person who walks through the ages and struggles. After experiencing all kinds of helplessness, consumption, laughter and sin in life, "the sea of life" is not only a sigh, but also a kind of heroism. There is both the cruelty of life and the kindness that time brings.
Dare to die is not courage, it takes courage to live; in "Life Sea sea", the Mai family writes about human nature as always, but this time it is a more cruel story.
Borrowing from the mouths of the characters in the novel, the author says a lot of meaningful words, which are the heartfelt voices that he wants to convey to the reader:
To be human is to do the right thing at the right time;
A minute of good, worth a lifetime of hatred;
How beautiful the city is, how small and ugly I am;
People must learn to let go, and letting go is a kind of kindness that spares people, and it is also the wisdom that spares themselves;
The wise can touch the traces of the future from the past;
She locked the past in her heart and took the venom in her mouth;
There is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, to love life after recognizing the truth of life;
The courage to pay to die, but not the courage to live; you must earn money, use money as wings to fly high... Tasting, aftertaste, and lingering, like this society has a profound indoctrination.
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.
Before the book was released, the Mai family called Gao Xiaosong, who did not say a word and flew back from the United States overnight. Gao Xiaosong read the book twice, and each time he shed tears, so Gao Xiaosong commented:
"This book is a masterpiece that climbs to the next peak of literature in the depths of the heart, and I really can't help but cry after reading it."
Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, commented:
This book made the Mai family shake out the foundation of the family!
Life sea sea, may you and I can live a good life, to be the best of themselves
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.
"Life sea sea" is a Hokkien phrase that describes the complexity and changeability of life but more than that.
It tells us that life is as vast as the sea, but no matter how hard life is, we must live well.
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