"Long Night Dream"
It must be said that this book is very friendly to writing learners.
"Long Dreams in the Night" is a novel by the author Zhao Lanzhen that took seventeen years. Judging from the title of the book alone, the cover of the red and black color scheme, a sense of gloomy heaviness surged forward. Fortunately, I was not rushed away, because I was not addicted to noisy short videos, and I could still calm down to appreciate the recommendation of the literary master Mo Yan.
The book is divided into two parts. The first part revolves around Nantang from the perspective of "God" and tells the story of what happens between people and nature and between people in The Village of Boshui, which is also true and illusory. The second part is a first-person story about the spiritual growth of the winged "I" of the boy in the village.
To be honest, I don't expect much from novels with rural themes. Because I also had a hard time leaving the countryside, leaving that depressed time. God sent the devil to choose this book?
At the beginning of the book, Nantang is introduced with the words "full of gorgeous horror", which easily persuades me to explore this thick mystery.
Nantang is a large artificial pond with a width of 20 to 30 meters. When she was four years old, a wandering villager "water trailer" accidentally fished a large bright red carp with a large head. The "water trailer" in awe let go of the big carp, but he couldn't hold back his inner secret, and took out the red super big fish scales that he accidentally hung, and confirmed his great insight to the villagers. Since then, the "Boo Water Village Magic Box" has been opened.
The arrogant and fierce "eagle", the sexually awakened teenager Xiang Yu, the shrewd Lou Bee, the kind and cowardly "water trailer", the righteous uncle who sells his nephew for glory... A small character, a small story of a ring and a ring, in the mysterious Nantang side, lay out a wonderful and charming magic story.
The first can be said to be a feast of imagination, every plant and tree, all have spirituality. Those sparse and ordinary flowers and trees, under the author's pen, have become spirits with thoughts and plans. Throughout the reading, I thoroughly enjoyed the author's anthropomorphic imagination of various things.
Nantang was originally a wild field. For the sake of political flattery, people rushed to dig her into a huge pond, and the people who rushed to work day and night accidentally crushed a human life, and the curse fell from then on. Nantang began to respond one by one with various strange counterattacks. It turned out that the location of Nantang was the place where a goddess slept - the goddess of creation, Nuwa. The goddess is distressed by the desires of her children and constantly issues punishments, but people are always good at forgetting pain, and generation after generation grows up, wave after wave of new desires sprout, invading Mother Earth. Finally, Mother Earth appeared and educated the bear children. Nantang, which was born out of greed, was gradually filled in by people's reverence for the gods of nature.
The second part is the inner dissection of the juvenile wings. Wing was abandoned by his parents since he was a child, and his grandmother took him to live another life in order to protect him from being bullied by his stepmother. Before being sold by the trusted uncle Justice, the wings were loved infinitely warmly by his grandmother, and even if his father did not love his mother, he was still a kind and happy teenager. And in the dark night when his dreams were shining, his beautiful trust was betrayed by his uncle. Watching the trusted relatives turn into demons that framed them, confusion and pain defeated the teenager. This pure water-like teenager, in the dark valley, gave birth to a gloomy and thorny soul. Fortunately, family affection has always warmed him. Finally, how can teenagers reconcile with their hometown? It's another dream journey...
If watching the first part is like watching the hilarity and fun of anecdotes, then seeing the extremely detailed confessions of the second part, I even have an illusion - are the wings the author himself? I can't help but feel sorry for the teenager...
Why did you think this book was shocked? Maybe it's the myths, betrayals, humiliations, inferiority experienced by the wings of the teenagers... We've all been passing by.
Seventeen years, juvenile adulthood. Hopefully, he has flown out of the long night of his hometown.
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