We Ride on a Whale
by Sun Pin
About This Novel
The novel tells the story of a nearly isolated island that has no four seasons and is always summer, where three people with different traumas live on it: "I", an ambitious middle-aged clerk who loves to write poetry but leads a messy life; Lao Zhou, a seventy-year-old playwright who is talented but accidentally kills someone due to jealousy among his colleagues; Wang Wenlan, a middle-aged woman who killed her domestically violent husband and was released from prison after 17 years in prison, but was devastated by the death of her only son in a car accident. In order to escape the noise of the world, three people came to an isolated island and lived together day and night. However, their original intention to go to the island was shaken in the loneliness with no end in sight. Soon, Lao Zhou disappeared inexplicably from the island without a trace. "I" who came to the island to guard the mine also violated the contract and returned to the mainland early, leaving only Wang Wenlan still holding on to her "ideal" of developing a so-called tourism project on the island.
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The essence of human being is an isolated island. Escape and return are only to face oneself.
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The essence of human being is an isolated island. Escape and return are only to face oneself.
