The Emptiness of the Afternoon: Childhood in Zhonggong Town
by Lu Ye
About This Novel
"The Emptiness of the Afternoon - Childhood in Zhonggong Town" is the latest masterpiece of Lu Ye, a well-known contemporary female poet and writer, winner of the 2011 and 2021 People's Literature Awards and the 2022 Lu Xun Literature Award. The book has about 170,000 words and is divided into four chapters: "Brewery", "Stone Courtyard", "Walnut Tree Primary School" and "South River Beach". In the book, she takes on the perspective of a little girl and travels to Zhonggong Town in the mountainous area south of a provincial capital in the mid-to-late 1970s. She recalls the past years at the interface between urban and rural areas before and after the reform and opening up, and shows the characteristics of people's material and spiritual life in that era. In this work, Lu Ye looks back on his childhood years in a style that is somewhere between prose and novel, and takes it as the center to narrate it, slowly unfolding a picture of life in the north before and after reform and opening up. Overall, the work shows the style of an era in a small and broad way, using microscopic writing. It not only records the social conditions of that era objectively and plainly, but also leaves real materials for historical reference.
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