Spicy Past of Jinguan City
by Little Boy In The World Of Mortals
About This Novel
When Dostoyevsky's unprecedented question "Who can judge after the death of God?" Falls into the boiling nine-square grid of Chengdu, what kind of story will emerge that is choked and returned to contentment? "The Spicy Past of Jinguan City" uses the storm of sudden changes in a hotpot family to cook up the unavoidable crimes and punishments in the process of China's urbanization. Wu Tianxiong, the old-school hot pot king, died suddenly. His three sons - a shrewd business tycoon, an estranged philosophy professor, and a reclusive ascetic - were forced to face the red-lined demolition past in the whirlpool of inheritance and old debts. The daughter of the embroidered mother who was destroyed 24 years ago returned with secrets and became the ultimate accuser who will question everyone's conscience. This is not only a suspenseful family epic, but also a Chengdu ukiyo-e sprinkled with spicy realism. With a cold and poetic style, the author allows philosophical debates to be carried out in teahouse conversations, and soul torture mixed with the hot steam of hot pot. The water of Jinjiang River, the fog of Qingcheng Mountain, and the fireworks of Kuanzhai Alley all together create a fabled city that is both tolerant and cruel. Here, everyone's soup is murky, and the possibility of redemption may lie in the clear paintbrushes of the next generation of children. When you open this book, you will taste not only the ups and downs of the plot, but also the hot and complex taste of life that has been boiled for twenty-four years about how we all should face the debts of yesterday and the road to tomorrow.
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