Three Trios (collected Works of Ningken)
by Rather
About This Novel
"Contemporary Literary Assassin" Ning Ken's 40th anniversary commemorative edition, one of the 2018 "Ning Ken Collected Works" series. Mo Yan, Jia Pingwa, Yan Lianke, Chi Li and Chen Xiaoming jointly recommended it. A pure literary masterpiece that examines power and human nature, a labyrinth story that challenges the reading dimension. "Three Trios" is one of Ningken's collections. The novel progresses through a three-line narrative that is extremely challenging to read. One line is the story of Du Yuanfang, the escaped state-owned enterprise boss, the other is the interrogation confession of a provincial secretariat who was double-regulated, and the third line is the annotations and narration of the above two stories by "I" who once experienced life on death row. The three parts, like three voices, continuously push the themes of the times, power, and human nature in-depth, thus making a common anti-corruption novel interpret rich meanings and questionings. As Mo Yan said, "it would rather combine sharp political criticism with profound human anatomy." Ning Ken, a Beijinger. Novelist and essayist, his main works include the novels "Heaven·Zang", "The Masked City", "Three Trios", "The Door of Silence" and "The Crater". Born in Beijing in 1959, his original name was Ning Minqing and his ancestral home was Ningzhuang, Hejian County, Hebei Province. Graduated from the Chinese Department of the Second Branch of Beijing Normal University in 1983. In 1982, he published his debut poem "Snow Dream" at "Grudge" in Shanghai. He lived in Tibet from 1984 to 1986 and wrote a series of prose works such as "Sky Lake", "Tibetan Song" and "The Silent Shore", making him one of the representatives of China's "new prose" movement. He is the author of essay collections "Speak, Tibet", "Beijing: City and Years", "My 20th Century" and "The Pipe of Thought". There are also short and medium story collections "Words and Objects" and "Vigram", and the non-fiction work "Notes on Zhongguancun". He is currently a member of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and the executive deputy editor-in-chief of "October" magazine. He has won the Lao She Literary Award for Novel twice, the first Shi Naian Literary Award, the 4th "People's Literature" Biennial Novel Award, the Beijing Literary Art Award, the overall champion of the 2nd "Contemporary" Literary Rally in 2001, the first Sun Li Prose Award Biennial Award, the first Hong Kong "Dream of Red Mansions Award" recommendation award, and the first American Newman Literary Award nomination. Selected as one of the top ten novels of Asia Weekly in 2014 and one of the best Chinese books in 2017, with works translated into English, French, Italian, and Czech.
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