The Sheep Cried, the Pigs Laughed, and the Ants Were Sick
by Chen Yazhen
About This Novel
A Chinese version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Ordinary World" takes place in Shanxi, a masterpiece of magical realism that shocked the literary world! A woman who died suddenly more than twenty years ago reappeared in the form of her soul twenty years later. The cause of her death was a mystery, so she used unimaginable tenacity and perseverance to start looking for relatives and friends in an attempt to unravel the secret of her life experience. However, the new way of living in society presents a surprising and unfamiliar worldly mood to her. With a deep sigh, she recalled the burden that the years had brought to her, thus revealing the history of blood and tears in a village for more than half a century, the secrets of a group of widows, and the confrontation between soul and flesh... The novel starts from the female vision and uses the narrative of the dead to tell the story of the narrator: Twenty years after "I" died, my soul returned to the human body. This time, we come to search for the unobtained human love and the order of the world, and use it to reflect on the history of more than half the world from the Anti-Japanese War to the founding of New China, and reflect on how the hero worship, revolutionary complex, male power, female ethics, etc. Hidden in people's hearts have changed and reshaped people's emotions and morals in special eras.
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Official(23)Scraped 21d ago
Disgusted.
After reading the preface, I felt that the book and its author were being praised to a ridiculous degree, so I immediately abandoned the book. You'll know it when you see it.
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Come on, keep working hard, support you
Very touching, ups and downs, good and evil, keep reading
Very nice. It describes the evil and goodness of human nature.
The introduction puts this book at a very high level. I suddenly felt that I had no idea to read it... After all, I have read those few books. Do you have such level that you are so unknown?
It should look good
Very well written! Like again!
odk
This is still realistic, People? Heart ?
When I saw the title of the book, I thought it was very interesting, so I collected it. After reading it, I still felt a lot of emotions.
Let hatred be far away, let love extend, let hearts be close, let souls be warmed, let black and white be clear, right and wrong be separated. No invasion, no interference... I don't know that history, but I know the heart that has been misunderstood and slandered, lamenting its indisputable personality and miserable life...
Rating
Community(0)
Official(23)Scraped 21d ago
Disgusted.
After reading the preface, I felt that the book and its author were being praised to a ridiculous degree, so I immediately abandoned the book. You'll know it when you see it.
praise
Come on, keep working hard, support you
Very touching, ups and downs, good and evil, keep reading
Very nice. It describes the evil and goodness of human nature.
The introduction puts this book at a very high level. I suddenly felt that I had no idea to read it... After all, I have read those few books. Do you have such level that you are so unknown?
It should look good
Very well written! Like again!
odk
This is still realistic, People? Heart ?
When I saw the title of the book, I thought it was very interesting, so I collected it. After reading it, I still felt a lot of emotions.
Let hatred be far away, let love extend, let hearts be close, let souls be warmed, let black and white be clear, right and wrong be separated. No invasion, no interference... I don't know that history, but I know the heart that has been misunderstood and slandered, lamenting its indisputable personality and miserable life...
