Murano's Temperature
by Li Xinli
About This Novel
"The Warmth of the Village" selects more than thirty essays by writer Li Xinli. As a migrant worker, Li Xinli "works to make a living and records his embarrassment of life and mental state in his spare time." The experience of leaving his hometown makes the words flowing out of his pen full of longing, memories, love and melancholy for his hometown. From both the material and non-material aspects of the countryside, he traced back to the 1980s and 1990s, describing the past years of Gansu villages at the foot of Liupan Mountain in slowly flowing words. From them, you can not only listen to the whispers of personal souls, but also encounter the footsteps of the times and regional customs. For example, "Geography" outlines the geographical features of small villages in Gansu through the description of important landmarks. "Old Eating" and "Rales of Time" focus on the joy of eating in a life of material scarcity. "Everything Never Grows in Stories" recounts the myths passed down orally in the land of Shaanxi and Gansu. The landscape, vegetation, birds, people, folk culture, food, four seasons, etc. Of his hometown are all incorporated into the hometown of memories he constructed, and melted into his beautiful and simple words.
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