"Twenty-one Chapters of a Floating Life" is a selection of short stories serialized in Southern Weekend by Mao Dun Literary Newcomer Award winner Ren Xiaowen. The material is based on interviews with all living beings in Shanghai. It focuses on the fate of small people. The story is sad and tragic, with an unexpected ending. It combines the sincerity of life details and the freedom of literary imagination. The language is fluent and refined, and it is known as "heavy chapters and durable sentences." It is a distinctive collection of short stories in recent years. The "Floating Life" series has won the "Open Narrative Award" of the 17th Baihua Literary Award and the 2016 "Southern Weekend" Foreign Draft Award.
Reader comments
This book is very real, and the characters in the story seem to be living around us. I can especially understand the bitterness and helplessness of those little people, just like I myself will encounter various difficulties in love, but I still have to persevere. I don't like those cowardly characters who always avoid problems and make people angry. But it also makes me cherish those people around me who face life bravely. Overall, this is a book worth reading and will make you think more about life.
A great novel and story, each person has his or her own destiny.
This book is very real, and the characters in the story seem to be living around us. I can especially understand the bitterness and helplessness of those little people, just like I myself will encounter various difficulties in love, but I still have to persevere. I don't like those cowardly characters who always avoid problems and make people angry. But it also makes me cherish those people around me who face life bravely. Overall, this is a book worth reading and will make you think more about life.
A great novel and story, each person has his or her own destiny.