The subversive work "Never Say You're Old" by Japanese super best-selling author and winner of the Wasagawa Prize, "Never Say You're Old"Chinese Simplified, was recently launched by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House and Chuchen Culture. From rebellious youth to mature men and women, this time Murakami Ryu focuses on middle-aged people from the perspective of the work, telling readers about the encounters of five 55-year-old protagonists facing their own life issues, showing the emotions, anxieties and dilemmas of people to middle age vividly and empathetically. It explores both life problems and social realities, and dedicates it to everyone who "never says old".

An idol writer of young and middle-aged literature and art - Murakami Ryu
Ryu Murakami, formerly known as Ryunosuke Murakami, was born in Sasebo in 1952. As a member of Japan's post-war generation, the young Murakami Ryu, like many young people who later became politicians or artists during this period in Japan, participated in social movements, associations, and rallies. These rebellious experiences had a profound impact on his thinking, which was later continuously integrated into his literary creations, and also prompted Murakami's early almost violent writing style. Therefore, he has a strong critical spirit and a sense of rebellion in literary creation.
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In 1976, his autobiographical debut novel Infinitely Similar to Transparent Blue was published, and Murakami won the 19th Group Portrait Newcomer Literature Award, and later won the Wasagawa Prize, and created a new genre in the history of Japanese literature, the transparent family. In the early days, Murakami Ryu always paid attention to the marginalized people in society, and his extremely impactful and stimulating bold descriptions, rebellious writing posture and outstanding writing talent made Murakami Long become a literary idol of many Japanese youth in that period and a "standard-bearer of the younger generation" in Japan.
In the 1990s, Japan's bubble economy collapsed, unemployment rose, and vicious crimes in society increased. In the face of various social problems, Murakami's works have never been separated from depicting marginalized people in society, trying to discover and guide how contemporary urbanites can find their own "happy life" in a rapidly changing society. Coupled with his involvement in film, Murakami Ryu increasingly became a more comprehensive writer, and along with Haruki Murakami, called "W Murakami", becoming the most popular contemporary writer in Japan.
Midlife crisis - it explores both life problems and social realities
Ryu Murakami, who has always held the principle of "not repeating the same method" to create works, has always brought readers different feelings with exuberant creativity. At the same time, Murakami Ryu, who is active in film and television, and pays attention to music and food, is always sensitive to touching the core of the times and thinking about social issues with different forms of works. In the publication of "Never Say You're Old", the author for the first time shifted his creative vision from marginal characters to more ordinary and more ordinary characters, making the novel have a more universal and extensive meaning.
In "Marriage Agency", the mature lady Shizuko, who is introverted and brave in divorce, feels that "life can be repeated" after experiencing several undesirable blind dates, and regains her enthusiasm and confidence in life; in "Dream of Soaring in the Sky Again", in which in the daily anxiety of Indo meets Fukuda, a high school classmate who has become a "homeless", after a trip back home, we see the dazedness and despair of middle-aged unemployment under the cruel social competition; Taro Tomita, who used his life savings to buy a caravan in "Campervan", However, he suffered from depression in real life after retirement; the lady who liked to drink Pu'er tea in "The Pain of the Lost Dog" experienced the death of her beloved pet and found communication problems with her husband; the solitary uncle who drove a heavy truck in "Travel Caregiver" met a person who could talk to, but there was a refusal that he did not expect at all.
In Murakami's own words, "It is the middle and elderly who try to 'start over'... Physical strength is gradually weakening, the economy is not completely worry-free, in the face of the next life, there is a general sense of 'powerlessness'. How can such a person survive in this difficult era? This question is at the heart of the game." Whether the reader is now middle-aged or is facing adult pressure, they can find resonance in the fictional characters.
"Building New Relationships" is one of the ways Murakami gives you a way to solve the "feeling of powerlessness" in this novel collection. This book uses a variety of daily details and gentle tones to bring us the courage and thinking to look back at the process of life. Through this novel, in fact, we no longer get imaginary comfort, but strong hope. As the protagonist of the book says, "The most terrible thing in life is to live while regretting it, not to be lonely."