One Water and Three Waves
by Hu Xuewen
About This Novel
The novel tells the story of a boy Ruan Ping's misplaced life as he grew up. Ruan Ping's father died unexpectedly during the college entrance examination, and his life took a turn. Entering a meat factory and getting married is basically a passive capture of life. The choice to kill pigs seems to be proactive, but it is actually a passive resistance to reality rather than out of true love; the choice to marry Pan Meihong is due to moral guilt, fear and desire rather than true love; the reason for running away three times is not because of a clear direction in life, but because of the inability to endure the suffocating trivial life. In its dense narration, the novel highlights Ruan Ping's extremely dramatic life, and uses a narrative technique that seems both real and illusory to express the confusion and helplessness of personal life.
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