What Happened in the Hotel
by Wang Anyi
About This Novel
This book is the latest collection of self-selected essays by the famous writer Wang Anyi. It selects essays written from January 2017 to December 2018, including travel notes, book reviews, prefaces and postscripts, and interviews. It is divided into four series, with a total of 24 works and more than 120,000 words. The latest one was written on December 24, 2018 (unpublished). The book begins with a set of essays of more than 30,000 words written by the writer during his stay in New York, USA, covering all aspects of nature, politics, diplomacy, culture, living habits, customs, etc. What he saw, heard, and thought is a concentrated display of the writer's thoughts and emotions. The other main content is the writer's impressions of reading the latest foreign novels; interactive Q&A with the questioner around the new novel "The Work Examination" and the reprinted "Mother and Daughter Traveling America"; writing about his father, his elders, and his comrades' old memories... The writer's subtle insights into the world and world affairs are revealed between the lines. His perceptual observations and rational thinking are unique and profound.
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