No. 4, Qingyun Street
by Hainan
About This Novel
Contemporary writer Hai Nan's breakthrough new work is a gentle book about life and impermanence, memory and forgetting, emotion and healing. "No. 4 Qingyun Street" is a dental clinic. The author sets this place as a narrative field to write about the individual memories and inner anxieties of doctors and patients in the clinic, and to sing about the gains and losses in the fireworks of the world. It uses leaping multi-line parallel narration to poetically connect the fragmented past events with the current life. Through a street scene, it reflects the joys and sorrows of the world, and thus triggers thoughts on the proposition of survival. The heroine in the book, Grandma Cilan, came to Qingyun Street as a youthful escape, and later joined the expeditionary force. After going to Myanmar, she became a nurse and experienced the life and death game on the battlefield. Today, she still lives in her old house on Qingyun Street and reminisces about the past here. The bleakness and brightness of life, the selfishness and kindness of human nature, the fragility and tenacity of life are all in it. This is a gentle book that travels through the field of life and death and soothes the grief of time.
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