Baishamen
by Tang Yan
About This Novel
New works by winners of Hainan Literature Biennial Award and Xiaojian Youth Literature Award. The memories of the island city of Hainan writers, the ups and downs of life of a generation of "sea trespassers". "Baishamen" is another novel about sea trespassers written by Hainanese author Tang Yan, following "Original Sin: Paradise Island" and "Island City Past", and is the final chapter of the "Sea Treacherous Trilogy". On the evening of a cold winter day in 2020, a mysterious woman contacted a wealthy businessman from the island city and a former seafarer through WeChat to chat, eliciting a melancholy love that had been sealed for twenty-four years, revealing a scene of corruption in which officials and businessmen colluded for personal gain, presenting a journey of keeping promises and looking for heroes, and playing a vibrato of awakening and facing the sun. Against the background of the island's economic boom, the author takes the ups and downs of the life of the sea-trespasser Tantian as the main line, and uses the experience of his girlfriend Cui Xiaowan who was forced to become a canary kept by officials before she was deeply involved in the world as the sub-line. It presents the intricate relationships and love-hate entanglements between Tantian, Cui Xiaowan, and Vice Mayor Wang. Baishamen has witnessed the development of the island city, and also witnessed the struggle of a generation of sea-trespassers and their love and hatred. This book is a realistic novel on the theme of sea adventure that integrates literature, story and thought.
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