It's Summer Outside
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About This Novel
"It's Summer Outside" is Jin Ae-ran's fourth short story collection, which includes seven works in total. Most of the protagonists in the story are experiencing "loss", losing their children, losing their father, losing someone who can communicate with them in their native language... Jin Ae-ran seems to intentionally crush the pain of all kinds of losses and evenly distribute it between the lines, so that the pain hits the readers' hearts from time to time. In this book, the author still maintains his role as an observer and recorder of urban life, and his narrative is plain and close to life. "It's Summer Outside" is the winning work of the 48th Dongren Literary Award, among which "The Silent Future" and "Where Do You Want to Go" won the author the 37th Lixiang Literary Award and the 8th Young Writers Award respectively. This time it is included in the "Collection of Jin Ailan's Works" and Di'an, winner of China's "People's Literature Award·Novel Award", is invited to write a preface.
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Official(2)Scraped 4d ago
Gentle and delicate writing, amazing insight and understanding of life.
So delicate
The pain of cutting flesh with a dull knife is painful and real
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Community(0)
Official(2)Scraped 4d ago
Gentle and delicate writing, amazing insight and understanding of life.
So delicate
The pain of cutting flesh with a dull knife is painful and real
