Ai Wei's latest novel "Past" is the story of an "alternative mother"

"Past" by Ai Wei, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House

Guangzhou Daily News (All-media reporter Wu Bo) Recently, the latest novel "Past" by powerful writer Ai Wei was fully listed.

Writing about women's growth

This "alternative mother" is a famous actor in Yue opera, who became popular all over the country with a song "Running Moon" when she was young, and her stage was dazzling, but she was estranged from her three children in life. In the eyes of her children, she has a bunch of problems in her body - "selfishness, lying, evasion of responsibility, but once she puts on the costume and stands in front of the audience, these problems suddenly become less important, and her light makes these problems seem insignificant." In her later years, she was seriously ill, contacting her children who had not been in touch for a long time, and the scenes of her old life reappeared, and the secret truth about the past gradually emerged.

"Past" is Ai Wei's masterpiece that focuses on women's life growth and family relationships. Different characters look back at the "past" with "the present", and in the face of major choices in life, the instinctive love in family affection is gradually revealed, and the complex human nature is also revealed. With his consistent calm narration and steady story rhythm, Ai Wei peels off the secrets hidden inside the family layer by layer, delicately presenting the "love" and "truth" in family life under the mutation of the society of the times.

The explorer who discovers "goodness and truth" from human nature

Born in 1966 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, Ai Wei is a writer of the ZhongjianLi school in contemporary China and is currently the chairman of the Zhejiang Writers Association. He is the author of novels such as "Lover Is Guilty", "Wind and Sunshine", "Midsummer", "South", etc., and the short story collection "The Whole Universe Is Talking to Me" and so on.

Ai Wei is not from the Chinese department, but together with Bi Feiyu, DongXi and Li Er, he is known as the "Quartet" of Chinese powerful writers, and is also one of the representative writers of the "new generation" after 60.

His creations try to show the great tension of human nature, discover the various undercurrents lurking in the depths of the heart, tap the huge energy of the inner world, and perceive and explore the human existence from it, and explore the instinctive power of love. In his works, the high degree of integration of literature and thought has also created his unique style and special temperament. The "alternative mother" in "The Past", the "alternative love" contained in her, is complex, deep, seemingly "alternative", but full of maternal power.

Source: Guangzhou Daily