Yaksha Crossing the River
by Lu Xin
About This Novel
"Yaksha Crossing the River" by Lu Xin, a young and emerging writer, is a collection of fantasy realism short stories, including 10 works. It uses imagination and cultural symbols to rewrite the latitude and longitude of reality, opening up the path to pursue spiritual prototypes: there are new interpretations of the Yaksha legend, a modern version of "Metamorphosis", and unsolved cases caused by the obsession with Fibonacci curves... The themes include historical myths, folklore, semiotics, pornographic movies, etc. The story is subtle and dense, absurd but wonderful, full of modern fantasy and suspense, often bizarre and fascinating. The storyline is bold in conception and strong in style, with both Kafka-style modernism and Edgar Allan Poe-style dark romantic aesthetics. The author is good at writing personal hesitations and breakthroughs about self-awareness, body, identity, and situation through rich descriptions of scene details and character psychology. It is an exploration and attempt by contemporary young people to rebuild their inner order with imagination.
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