Holiday Delight Reading | Miao Wei's new long story focuses on the "sad story" of the urban middle class

Recently, writer and media personality Miao Wei's novel "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories" was published by the People's Literature Publishing House.

In the story constructed by the writer, there are radio hosts, screenwriters, psychologists, university professors, company owners, law firm partners, and the urban middle class appears in the story, and each protagonist has money, leisure, culture and taste, and his appearance is bright and beautiful, but he has a fate that is difficult to get rid of. Behind the glossy back are mental restlessness and restlessness, fragile emotional relationships, and status that may be instantly zeroed out. Starting from the relationship between marriage and love, Miao Wei analyzes the desire and emptiness, persistence and escape of the contemporary urban middle class.

Miao Wei writes about his latest life, but in an almost retro tone. For the protagonists of "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories", they face a trivial and mediocre life, but they always try to grasp something mentally.

"Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Story" is an absurd and reasonable novel, the author puts people into emotional relationships to test, and the magnified fragility, emptiness, anxiety, cynicism, decency, resentment, eccentricity, and contrivance of those normal people together constitute another life. There are moments in the book that everyone may have experienced, but it is a life that everyone cannot see through.

Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Zhiyi

Editor/Ying Qiao