This book is a new short and medium-length novel by Awei Muyiluo, a female ethnic minority writer with a distinctive writing style. It includes 12 stories including "Where the Sun Sets" and "Like a Rain of Bright Feet". Most of the works are based on real life. They use Kafkaesque deformation, absurd images and symbols, and intuitive techniques to describe the experiences and joys and sorrows of ordinary individuals with stories full of metaphors. They are permeated with the author's thinking about various social phenomena, and his careful observation and compassion for the people at the bottom. They describe the joys and mutual support of the bottom life, and the sometimes intertwined care and peeping between the humble, showing Aweimu Yiluo's exploration and humanistic care for the survival plight of the bottom people.
The texture of Aweimu Yiluo's novels is as simple and innocent as a child's. It may seem absurd but is full of philosophical meaning of returning to nature.
For example, "Where the Sun Sets" describes a series of absurd things that a working woman living alone experienced after she suddenly lost her sight, and presented the inner enlightenment and spiritual sublimation of a blind woman returning to nature after being far away from the material life in the city, etc.
Reader comments
This book is very real and makes me relate to it. Just like Duan Qingping in the book, we will also encounter various difficulties in life, but many times we choose to endure them silently. Aweimu Yiluo wrote about our inner stubbornness and self-esteem, and also made me understand how important mutual help and communication between people are. We should not always face difficulties alone, but should learn to ask others for help and overcome difficulties together. This book made me think more about life.
This book is very real and makes me relate to it. Just like Duan Qingping in the book, we will also encounter various difficulties in life, but many times we choose to endure them silently. Aweimu Yiluo wrote about our inner stubbornness and self-esteem, and also made me understand how important mutual help and communication between people are. We should not always face difficulties alone, but should learn to ask others for help and overcome difficulties together. This book made me think more about life.