About This Novel
"Falling Away" is a work that explores how to face aging, how to welcome death, and how to live well. Writer Pippi describes the life style of his parents and uncles in their twilight years with affectionate writing, and tells more than 20 different stories, objectively depicting the inner world and survival dilemmas faced by the elderly, and confronting the aging issue that is of widespread concern today. Describing old age and death are originally heavy and sad topics, but Pippi's writing is fresh and clear, with rich black humor, making people feel warm and poetic in the helpless old life and the cold threat of death, and can see the undertone of "love" between the lines. The writer uses such a chain of "love" to run through all kinds of dissatisfaction in life: the struggle for survival, the helplessness of children, mutated emotions, misunderstanding of the world of the elderly, etc., Giving the whole book a fugue-like brilliance, revealing the writer's complex and delicate feelings.
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