History of Silence
by Luo Weizhang
About This Novel
"The History of Silence" uses seven stories to describe "silence" and analyzes for us the spiritual world buried behind the seven silent people. In "Moonlight Border", Lin Ya was suppressed by the tired and cramped life, and eventually became the protagonist in a movie she had watched, "climbing up the windowsill and jumping off"; in "Real Life", Hu Jian, who had high hopes since childhood, grew up because he was not familiar with the world. Being ostracized by everyone, "I" regarded him as an idol because he seemed to "better able to see the essence of reality". Unexpectedly, in the end Hu Jian "finally understood", and the flag of "I" collapsed, like "Anna abandoned her remaining nobility"; in "River Wind", Zhang Tiejiang lost his love due to his own restraint, and in the end all that was left was "a black dog skin nailed to the wall in front of him"; in "The Name of a Bird", Li Xiangzhi hides his past and avoids the truth and his inner world by pursuing "no life" world; in "History of Silence", "I" found the priest Lin Anping due to a task conveyed by my superiors, and in my interactions with this woman who had been accompanied by visions since childhood and became the chosen one, "I" gradually discovered the secrets between her and myself (and everyone)...
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