The Masked City (collected Works of Ning Ken)
by Rather
About This Novel
Ning Ken has been exploring a paradoxical "elsewhere" in the novel "The Masked City". The multiple meanings of youth, growth, life, death, etc. All start from a "masked heart" and are constantly touched and even uncovered in the process of peeling off the story. Everyone's reality is everyone's trap. The hero Mag's wandering journey stems from his doubts about his father's identity and the world. At the age of seventeen, he could not resolve or explain this "doubt" and chose to exile himself. He defined himself as a "zero" person, a person with no end and no source. Tibet has become a very important carrier of the novel, and it is very heterogeneous. "The Masked City" continues to explore the "relationship between man and the world", interspersed with philosophical speculation, prehistoric rock paintings, poetry and literature, national sentiments, rock music and other contents, constantly broadening the horizontal and vertical depth and thickness of the novel, and also leaving a distinct imprint of the development of the times. Ning Ken, a Beijinger. Novelist and essayist, his main works include the novels "Heaven·Zang", "The Masked City", "Three Trios", "The Door of Silence" and "The Crater". Born in Beijing in 1959, his original name was Ning Minqing and his ancestral home was Ningzhuang, Hejian County, Hebei Province. Graduated from the Chinese Department of the Second Branch of Beijing Normal University in 1983. In 1982, he published his debut poem "Snow Dream" at "Grudge" in Shanghai. He lived in Tibet from 1984 to 1986 and wrote a series of prose works such as "Sky Lake", "Tibetan Song" and "The Silent Shore", making him one of the representatives of China's "new prose" movement. He is the author of essay collections "Speak, Tibet", "Beijing: City and Years", "My 20th Century" and "The Pipe of Thought". There are also short and medium story collections "Words and Objects" and "Vigram", and the non-fiction work "Notes on Zhongguancun". He is currently a member of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and the executive deputy editor-in-chief of "October" magazine. He has won the Lao She Literary Award for Novel twice, the first Shi Naian Literary Award, the 4th "People's Literature" Biennial Novel Award, the Beijing Literary Art Award, the overall champion of the 2nd "Contemporary" Literary Rally in 2001, the first Sun Li Prose Award Biennial Award, the first Hong Kong "Dream of Red Mansions Award" recommendation award, and the first American Newman Literary Award nomination. Selected as one of the top ten novels of Asia Weekly in 2014 and one of the best Chinese books in 2017, with works translated into English, French, Italian, and Czech.
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