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May is the beginning of the holiday season, and in walking and traveling, you can feel the flow of time in history and the present, which is also widely presented in the new books we have selected and recommended. When a teenager embarks on an unexpected adventure, when the picture of lush grasslands and remote villages slowly unfolds, when women burst out with new energy for their fate in difficult times, these stories and characters are just small waves in the river of time, but they are enough to provide us with grand and complex landscapes and experiences today.
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"To Lao Wanyu's House"
"Letter in the World"
"A Man Disappears into the World"
Primordial Sea
"The Boy Doesn't Know Where to Go"
《Sadan》
Non-fiction
Memory Cottage
"Walking Literature Trilogy"
Never Stop: A Biography of Margaret Atwood
Du Fu's Historical Picture: The Prosperous Age
"The Woman in My Soul"
Everything I Told You About That Mountain
(The above works are listed in no particular order)
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"To Lao Wanyu's House"
Zhang Wei / Author
People's Literature Publishing House
Does the siege fog that the teenager broke through reflect the turbulent era and the journey of enlightenment and transformation in young China?
Zheng Zhouming
When a danger approaches a beautiful boy, the original fantasy story is complicated by the setting of the late 19th century. Writer Zhang Wei drew inspiration from the rumors of island bandits in his childhood memories, and let the teenager in Guangzhou, a place like the seed of revolution, fall into an unheard-of thrill on the way back to his hometown, or rather, because he was at sea, it became "a fantasy drift". This story about youth growth and historical legends is full of tenacity and contempt, maneuvering and seeing, determination and shattering, as well as ominous "disasters" and "monsters" in the eyes of teenagers. The genre narrative smoothly grafts the ancient era and today's reading, allowing the reader to immerse himself in the fog of siege that the teenager broke through and suddenly realize whether it reflects the turbulent era and the journey of enlightenment and transformation in young China.
"Letter in the World"
Mai Jia / Author
New Classics Flower City Publishing House
Zhang Yingying
"Letter in the World" has few twists and turns, but it sees the helpless fluttering of the little people in the special era.
Compared with its predecessor, "The Sea of Life", this new full-length work from the Mai family has a certain autobiographical texture, telling the story of a family that grows out of suffering. The father who has been a "billow" and a gambler all his life, the "me" who broke with it and made the family situation worse, and the grandmother and mother who are struggling to support the family's work, this family model is not uncommon in the vast land, but there are few direct writings about it. In this sense, the Mai family is undoubtedly courageous.
As far as the novel itself is concerned, "Letter in the World" rarely has twists and turns, but it sees the helpless fluttering of the little people in the special era. In the transition between the first person and the third person, whether it is confusion, contradiction, hesitation, anger, resentment, and guilt, the undisguised "I" is also undisguised by the Mai family, and the complex emotions and inner world of the characters are undoubtedly revealed, and the difficult lives of the two women who uphold traditional virtues are vividly revealed.
Primordial Sea
[USSR] Andrei Platonov/Author
Translated by Xu Zhenya
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
He Jing
His unique linguistic flair, imagination and subject matter come together to reveal another aspect of a writer's quest for writing as he has mastered his or her skills.
Known as "the only writer of the twentieth century who has inherited the glorious tradition of nineteenth-century Russian literature," Platonov's work is known for its profound thoughts. The collection "Primordial Sea" contains four novellas by Platonov, and the novel of the same name, "Primordial Sea", which he did not write during his lifetime, tells the story of the protagonist who goes deep into the steppes of southeastern Russia, hoping to use arc technology to drill the primeval sea underground, so as to transform the steppe into a rich land. The subject matter gives a glimpse of Platonov's path of thinking, and his unique linguistic talent, imagination and theme are integrated to reveal another pursuit of writing after a writer has mastered his skills.
"A Man Disappears into the World"
Alessandro Barrico
Translated by Chen Ying
Purui Culture Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
Fu Xiaoping
Barrico's language is so clear that it is almost transparent to explore the ultimate state of human existence, and his novels seem to have a sense of mystery and metaphysics that is free from the banal and elusive.
If 1900 in "The Pianist at Sea" has fixed himself on a cruise ship all his life, so that for the outside world, he has never been born, never existed, and never died, then Mr. Gwen in "A Man Disappears into the World" exists in the world, in order to retire from this world and return to the state of nothingness. Barrico's use of clear, almost transparent language to explore the ultimate state of human existence seems to have a sense of detachment from the banal, elusive mystery and metaphysics, which is an important reason why his novels appeal to readers. It's an unattainable realm, but one that we all aspire to at some point in our lives. Barrico writes about this indescribable state of mind, which makes us deeply touched and difficult to let go of after reading it.
"The Boy Doesn't Know Where to Go"
Miguel Delives/Author
Translated by Fan Yuan
99 Readers, People's Literature Publishing House
Li Lingjun
Dani's longing gaze is like a camera imprinting this small and independent village on the negative of memory, and the floating world, the warmth and coldness of people, the flowing scenery, and the surging emotions come to his face.
The writer Miguel De Liwes has been hailed as the "conscience of Spain", and his stories are mainly based on the lives of ordinary people under Franco's regime. "The Boy Doesn't Know Where to Go" is his second novel, a fresh and moving idyll. The 11-year-old boy Dani is about to leave his hometown village to study in the city under the arrangement of his parents, he is reluctant to get familiar with everything, where there are his hard-working and kind parents, innocent and lively partners, crush girls, and all kinds of villagers who appear in his life every day. The surging emotions come to an abrupt end, but they come to an abrupt end when Dani leaves with tears and is about to embark on a new path of life, leaving the reader with indescribable melancholy and relief.
《Sadan》
Laird Hunt
So/translated
Surprise: Guangxi Normal University Press
How much more does a woman have to suffer in order to live the life she wants? However, the book is not all suffering, on the contrary, it is very warm.
Yuan Huan
It is never easy to present a woman's life in a small book of less than 200 pages, let alone a life that is still wrapped up in history, but Laird Hunt has done it. The book is poetic, it is calm, slow and timeless. The protagonist Zori's life has a difficult start from the beginning, her parents died, she moved to her aunt's house, and her aunt died again; later, she wandered, sleeping in a barn, under the stars, and then, she became a "radium girl", working in a factory to paint radium on the dial, finally met someone who really loved her, had a home, and her husband died in war a few years later...... As I read it, I couldn't help but ask: how much more does a woman have to suffer in order to live the life she wants? Zori's strength, love and longing, along with those around her who also have good qualities, shine together, sad but full of strength.
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Du Fu's Historical Picture: The Prosperous Age
Wang Bingwen/Author
Purui Culture· Yuelu Book Society
Li Lingjun
See how Du Fu became Du Fu, and verify and restore a historical picture of the prosperous era that Du Fu witnessed and lived in that day.
For the poet saint Du Fu, the image we are familiar with is often the old man with a worried face in the textbook, and in the animated movie "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", we see another innocent and lively naughty boy, they are all Du Fu, but they are not exactly "Du Fu". In previous studies, most of the research focused on the second half of Du Fu's life, but the first half of his life was rarely in-depth research, and this was precisely the period of formation and development of his thoughts and cognition. Young scholar Wang Bingwen's new book "Du Fu's Historical Picture: The Prosperous Age" uses historical research methods to retrace the first half of the life of the poet, placing Du Fu in the family, society, political struggles and geographical patterns, paying attention to the formation and development period of his ideological cognition, seeing how Du Fu became Du Fu, researching and restoring a historical picture of the prosperous era that Du Fu witnessed and lived in that day, starting from the side of the great poet, arriving at a great era, and re-understanding the meaning of "poetry history".
"The Woman in My Soul"
By Isabel Allende
Translated by Tan Wei
Yilin Publishing House
He Jing
This is an 80-year-old female writer looking back at where she came from, and she still thinks about the eternal question of what kind of world we want.
Women, aging, love, Allende's autobiographical memoir recalls his birth, marriage, parenting, work, and lifelong reflections on the oneness of women. As he puts it, "Every time I've been there, every wrinkle on my face, there's something to say." "Her description of aging—which is now the golden years of my long life—of death—of a mature, elegant, friendly, gardenia-scented lady who waits patiently in my garden and sometimes we say hello; and of the female souls of life—who bravely love and be loved, as an 80-year-old woman writer looks back at where she came from, and she still thinks about the eternal question of what kind of world we want.
"Walking Literature Trilogy"
By Robert McFarron
Hang Hai, Wang Rufei / trans
New Classic Culture, Nanhai Publishing Company, Wenhui Publishing House
The ancient road is not about time, but also about who opened up the road and who left behind songs, legends and eternal memory fragments.
Zheng Zhouming
What kind of stories do travelers and cultural researchers see in the face of frozen mountains, open wilderness, and winding ancient roads? McFarron's "Remembering the Distant Mountains", "The Wilderness Realm", and "The Ancient Road" have become classics in the field of nature literature soon after their publication, and the internal reason for this is that they are integrated with the earth under their feet through the eyes of human culture and history. In his literary penmanship and scientific vision, the height of the mountains is the ambition of human beings to climb, and behind every stone is the sedimentation of hundreds of millions of years of history. And the wilderness is the human desire for freedom and uninhibitedness, and it is also a blank space that cannot be accurately described on the map. As for the ancient road, it is not about time, but also about who opened up the road, who left behind songs, legends and eternal memory fragments. In this new trilogy of translations, we will feel the true charm of non-fiction writing and see the realm of life that ordinary travel cannot reach.
Never Stop: A Biography of Margaret Atwood
Rosemary Sullivan
Translated by Chen Xiaowei
Unbounded CITIC Publishing Group
Zhang Yingying
At a time when men were dominant, how did a female writer's artistic self-confidence come about?
Contrary to the idea of "building a monument", Sullivan hopes to explore what makes Atwood an Atwood through this book. As a result, this biography, first published at the end of the last century, focuses on Atwood's experiences from childhood to the late 1970s, rather than obsessively pursuing the path of writing that followed her nearly 20 years of success. Putting aside our romanticized perception of writers, how did she believe in herself and move forward step by step when she wanted to become a writer in her teens? In other words, how did a female writer's artistic self-confidence come into being at a time when men were dominant? In a way, this is the reason why this biography is not outdated even in the present.
Memory Cottage
By Tony Judt
Translated by Ho Ching-chi
Sanhui Books Commercial Press
Jute uses memory as bricks and wood, and thoughts as mortise and tenon joints to build a "memory hut", and to say that it is a "hut" is actually not small.
Fu Xiaoping
The Memory Cottage is a memoir dictated by historian Tony Judt after he suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In the sleepless nights after his illness, Zhu Teh used memory as bricks and wood, and thoughts as mortise and tenon joints to build a "memory hut", and to say that it is a "hut" is actually not small. Because each review of Judt's personal experience ultimately leads to a review of past history, so that his observation and participation in politics and current affairs are permeated between the lines. The texts weave between lyricism and analysis, between the private and the public, between the concrete history and the individual feelings in it, tracing both the life course of a historian and the complex history of the 20th century, so that, as one commentator suggests, this little book seems to be another "History of Postwar Europe" written from the perspective of his personal life story.
Everything I Told You About That Mountain
Liu Chenjun/Author
Kyushu Publishing House
I was struck by the author's keen perception of self and life far beyond his years. These words all reveal the young man's sincere and profound thoughts.
Yuan Huan
Although at the beginning of the book, the convenience of publishing gets to the heart in one sentence: literary phenomena should not be consumed to death. But I have to admit frankly that my initial motivation for reading was my curiosity about the words left behind by the accidental death of 19-year-old Liu Chenjun in an expedition. Some of the travel diaries, letters, and poems included in the book are not even complete, but even if they are fragments, random thoughts, and broken chapters, they are enough to shock me that the author is far beyond his years, and has a keen understanding of himself and life. These words all reveal the young man's sincere and profound thoughts.
"The living people are rushing to a place", Liu Chenjun has always practiced it, believing that "you have to go to the scene, take the mountain road, and become a mountain". The last part of the book is "To Chenjun", which is a letter written by my mother, friends, etc., and each one is a tear catalyst.
When we close the book, we can't imagine what kind of light this pure, talented teenager would have shown in the world of literature if he were alive. The only thing that is certain is that, as the writer Tong Weige said, the integration and publication of this book proves that an author cannot be copied with a new life.
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