About This Novel
Ge Liang's "Urban Strange Stories" series of novels, winner of the annual China Good Book Award. Our lives are receiving a certain kind of perspective, coming from a pair of daily eyes. A storm of novels named after animals, based on encounters over the years. Yan Geling, Su Tong, and Mao Jian sincerely recommend "The prosperity of this city, when you turn around, there are still many stories, some twists and turns and bleakness wrapped in gorgeous clothes. Of course, there is also a lot of warmth, vague, waiting for you to touch." Our lives are receiving a certain kind of perspective. A pair of eyes from everyday life. A cat or a parrot, even a beetle or a crab. We don't know what it will look like in the next second. What's worse is that it will fall apart when we are most interested in living. A typhoon named after an animal, because of its rapid movement and strange path, brought strong winds and abundant rain to the island city, as well as unexpected encounters. Stories are born out of encounters, and there are witnesses about time, witnessing others, and also witnessing yourself. The escape from life is not fate, but an adventure. Zhang Ailing once wrote "Legend" back then, and she still wrote about encounters in Hong Kong. What she encountered was the changes of the times, which was the helplessness and desolation half a century ago. What is written in this book is the warmth and coldness of encounters, and there is a lot of sadness, just because things are not what people are.
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