
Disappearing Name
by Old Begonia
About This Novel
"The Lost Name" is the poet Jiu Haitang's first autobiographical novel. It is based on the resurrection of personal experience and tells a story of survival unique to this era: the father who was living abroad recognized his ancestors and returned to the family, and his name was lost and recovered; the sister who dropped out of school to work pretended to use someone else's name (ID card) because she was not old enough; the woman who was seriously ill during pregnancy My sister delayed medical treatment in order to give birth to a child, and it was not until many years after her death that the rural land expropriation was finally removed... The novel's narrative about "name" spans 40 years, and the family's move to the city and return to their hometown, witnessing the existence and disappearance of people, the decline and rise of the times, and opening up a unique lyrical path for literature to write about the suffering of ordinary people.
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