Zhang Hu and Mu Xin
by Chen Danqing
About This Novel
"I suddenly understood: There is only one way to stay with this difficult guy, which is to continue writing about him... I don't want to limit the length or leave out all kinds of details. This is the end of Mu Xin's own life to teach me the last lesson." - Chen Danqing Zhang Hu is the pen name Mu Xin gave Chen Danqing. In 1982, Chen Danqing and Mu Xin went to the United States and met on the New York subway. They became both mentor and friend for nearly thirty years. After Mu Xin passed away in 2011, Chen Danqing began to write about Mu Xin. Eight years later, this collection was produced. The book uses extremely realistic pen and ink and careful and sincere words to recall Mu Xin's literary journey starting from the end point. It is rare that a person's death is described in such detail, and it is rare that such words gaze at death so affectionately. "Zhang Hu and Mu Xin" records the death of literature and itself becomes the literature of death.
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