Old Things in the South of the City
by Lin Haiyin
About This Novel
"Old Things in the South" is an autobiographical novel by the famous Taiwanese female writer Lin Haiyin. It is also her most influential and famous work. The German version won the "Blue Cobra Award", the highest award for youth literature in Switzerland. The author uses his own life from the age of 7 to 13 as the background, recalls childhood events through Yingzi's childish eyes, and tells the stories of several tragic little characters he saw and heard in his boyhood. It truly reflects the poverty, desolation and suffocating social atmosphere of old China in the 1920s and 1930s, and also reveals the author's deep longing for his childhood and hometown. In 1983, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, which won many awards including the "China Film Golden Rooster Award" and was released in dozens of countries.
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