The Dust Has Settled
by Alai
About This Novel
"The Dust Has Settled" is a masterpiece by Alai, a heavyweight writer who has been very popular for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years. It won the 5th Mao Dun Literary Award and is also a best-selling classic in contemporary Chinese literary circles. In the novel, a prominent Tibetan chieftain named Maiqi gave birth to a foolish son to his Han wife after drinking. This fool that everyone thinks is out of tune with real life, but he has premonition abilities and behavior that transcend the times. While other chieftains were planting opium poppies, the foolish master suddenly suggested planting wheat instead. As a result, the opium supply was oversupplied and no one cared about it. A large number of hungry people defected to Mai Qi's command. The territory and population of the Mai Qi family reached an unprecedented scale. As a result, the foolish master married his beautiful wife Tana and opened the first border trade market in the Kham region. However, when the foolish young master returned to the Maiqi Tusi official village, a bloody storm within the family over inheritance quietly began...
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Official(14)Scraped 21d ago
A book worth reading again! This is the third time
Ashes to dust, earth to earth, the Tusi family, which had been prosperous for a while, was finally at peace. After all, we are just a speck of dust in this world, and will eventually blend into the soil under our feet. No matter how arrogant you were during your lifetime, money, women, and rights will eventually leave us, just like the soul will eventually leave the body. Thank you Alai for baptizing our souls!
It's a very good book. After reading it for the third time, I know why there is no score or popularity.
From the peak of prosperity to the final decline, this decline seems to be an instant, and this huge gap has been felt in my chest for a long time. The wheel of the times is rolling forward, and the arrival of the new era is the ebb of the old era. "I have seen it, heard it, or been in it, but it is also transcendent." What we want to learn is this kind of state of living in the world.
It records the author's rough hometown in words and tells a unique and wonderful story.
A group, a culture, a belief, a custom, different places, different times, create different stories
The dust has finally settled
Feel the writer's emotions without any supervisory emotions.
The seasons rotate, and so does fate.
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The article describes the story of a prominent family from prosperity to decline. In the confrontation between the old and new eras, we can witness the darkness of human ethics and the injustice of the old era through the stories of the old era. The book "The Dust Has Settled" tells us that only when we recognize ourselves can we better examine the world!
This book gives us a visual understanding of that period of Tibetan history.
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Official(14)Scraped 21d ago
A book worth reading again! This is the third time
Ashes to dust, earth to earth, the Tusi family, which had been prosperous for a while, was finally at peace. After all, we are just a speck of dust in this world, and will eventually blend into the soil under our feet. No matter how arrogant you were during your lifetime, money, women, and rights will eventually leave us, just like the soul will eventually leave the body. Thank you Alai for baptizing our souls!
It's a very good book. After reading it for the third time, I know why there is no score or popularity.
From the peak of prosperity to the final decline, this decline seems to be an instant, and this huge gap has been felt in my chest for a long time. The wheel of the times is rolling forward, and the arrival of the new era is the ebb of the old era. "I have seen it, heard it, or been in it, but it is also transcendent." What we want to learn is this kind of state of living in the world.
It records the author's rough hometown in words and tells a unique and wonderful story.
A group, a culture, a belief, a custom, different places, different times, create different stories
The dust has finally settled
Feel the writer's emotions without any supervisory emotions.
The seasons rotate, and so does fate.
Very good looking very good looking very good looking
The article describes the story of a prominent family from prosperity to decline. In the confrontation between the old and new eras, we can witness the darkness of human ethics and the injustice of the old era through the stories of the old era. The book "The Dust Has Settled" tells us that only when we recognize ourselves can we better examine the world!
This book gives us a visual understanding of that period of Tibetan history.
