The Gorge River Flows West
by Chen Nianxi
About This Novel
Hometown is everyone's retreat. Miner poet Chen Nienxi's new collection of essays talks about his hometown and explores the roots of literature! This book is a sincere collection of the works of Chen Nianxi's literary column "Xiahe Flows to the West" in "Southern Weekend". He is an Odyssey in the mines and a wanderer of words. His nearly twenty years of wandering have ended with great joy. His body is stained with fine dust and he returns to his hometown to search. An in-depth dialogue with clouds, soil, mountains and forests, and memories of time, condensed into 27 masterpieces about the hometown. Where does the Xiahe River come from and where does it go? The answers given by the people of Xiahe River are in the book, and they are all in the rhyme of the times. In the artist's field, he specially painted 30 pen and ink paintings, embellishing the people, things and things in the Xiahe River. "People do two things throughout their lives, leaving home and returning home, which takes a lot of effort and even narrow escapes. In fact, it is not two things, it is one thing, because leaving home is also returning home, but in a different direction or way. Hometown is an important part of destiny. I would like to dedicate this book to my hometown that has disappeared, and to the people who are rushing and scattered in the dust. In the era when our hometown disappears, I hope we all have a hometown!"
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