Bright Night

A chronological history of women: it is about generations of women who have been persecuted by the times, it is women who support each other to move forward, it is generations of women who influence each other, love each other but hurt each other. They have no family relationship, but they have a deeper relationship than mother and daughter. They understand each other and support each other. From the moment when the great-grandmother "Bai Ding", who was not tolerated by the times, left her sick mother to marry her great-grandfather and leave, the story casts a layer of complex emotions on the mother and daughter. On the one hand, she feels selfish and guilty, and on the other hand, she complains about her birth status as a Bai Ding, her life of being unable to hold her head high, and her mother's dragging her down. The misfortune of the great-grandmother (Mikawa) made the grandmother (Yingyu), who was a daughter rather than a son, not liked by the great-grandfather. Of course, the great-grandfather left his parents and married Bai Ding and felt that he had sacrificed a lot, so he also disliked Yingyu. Marrying Yingyu to a married man made great-grandmother and Yingyu intolerable. Although Yingyu said that he would die, he died in a car accident, but it also left a shadow on Yingyu. As a fairy who has a father but is better than not having a father, that is, my mother, I have experienced the unbearable times of my grandmother and great-grandmother, but I have also felt the warmth of Grandma Mingshu, Xizi, Uncle Xinyu and aunt, and have grown up to be obedient and sensible children. However, I have also chosen to marry a man who will not beat me for the rest of my life. As the protagonist, I (Jiyeon) ) fell into depression because of her husband's cheating and divorce, but my mother didn't understand her. I couldn't understand that my mother still stood by her son-in-law. After leaving my home in Jiuju, I came to Xiling to meet my great-grandmother whom I hadn't seen for a long time. After hearing their stories for generations, I gradually got over the negative emotions of the divorce and understood what my mother had done. The story explains the background of the times, focuses on the understanding and help between women, and recreates the time. Among them, what impressed me the most is that the reasons why women are persecuted are society and themselves. When we tolerate it, it is impossible to change. We must fight for it, not only for ourselves but also for millions of women. What we want is not rights but freedom, freedom as a human being, not the shame that comes with being a woman.

Compared with smooth language narration and appropriate atmosphere description, the author's unhurried and confident rhythm control of the whole book is the most effective. This is my first time reading Korean literature, and I am really lucky to read such excellent works! What is even more commendable is that in addition to the technical advantages mentioned above, the emotional expression in the book is also very delicate and clear! Xinyu and Sanchuan shared weal and woe, heartbroken and helpless, helpless, Xizi and Yingyu fell in love and rejected each other, Jiyeon complained and yearned for her mother (Meixian), and Jiyeon and her grandmother (Yingyu) slowly got closer to each other. The friendship and closeness are intertwined but distinct. It is clear and clear to read and empathize with. At the same time, there are also clues about Ji-yeon's review and analysis of her marriage and her gradual recovery from the frustration and loneliness of divorce. She was clearly a recent couple but ignored her pain. She even closed the door and did aerobics as if nothing had happened when she collapsed. She pretended to be deaf when her mother verbally attacked her wife, but even so, she missed his shoulders and smell after separation. The translator said that the author was also a woman in her thirties. All these details seemed to be deeply felt. Furthermore, there is no angry and crying heroine in the novel that I often see in Korean dramas or Korean movies who talk about their worth or dignity. Jiyeon is never long-winded, decisively leaves her cheating husband, never gives up on her career, tries hard to break away from the shadow of many emotions, and takes action (not hiding the fact of her divorce in front of relatives), and finally helps her grandmother find her sister. Jiyeon is really excellent and amazing, Jiyeon is also ordinary me, but this is enough. Instead of crying, she chose to accuse! So confident!

Although there seems to be no ups and downs in the plot, it always makes people shed tears in the plain language. The touching friendship between women is a novel that people can't help but read.

Some books about female friendship and women living alone. It turns out that I can become stronger alone.

This is the first time I have completely read a book by a Korean female author. Because I don't know much about Korean history, when I read the book, I kept reading Mr. Sunshine and Come to Meet You through the End of Hardships, and I still shed tears because of the flowing emotions. My grandmother must have been in great pain, but she described her own experience calmly, as if she was telling someone else's story. The loneliness in every word overflows the screen. It's a good book, I think. Women's tenacity and support, four generations have awakened to the matter of living for themselves to varying degrees. I will always be moved by the warmth of this book.

I really like this kind of long-lasting novel. When I saw Uncle Xinyu in Hiroshima, and the time was 1945, I burst into tears. Later, when I saw that Uncle Xinyu came back alive, I felt lucky together with the people in the book. The history integrated into each story node made me a witness and rememberer of history while being a story listener. Perhaps this was the real impression of the war by the people of that era.

A very good piece of literature! This is the first time I read a novel by a Korean writer. The unique slight sigh of "ah, ah" adds a touch of indifference to the emotional ups and downs of the story. The "current" grandmother is indifferent, but in the stories "I" heard and narrated, those emotions of resentment, despair, reluctance, and regret can be clearly conveyed to me! Really detailed writing! The story is also very vivid! Very complete! From reality interspersed with my grandmother's memories, to the final moment when "my" and my grandmother welcome Xizi together, it's so complete! Like! ! [Send heart][Send heart][Send heart][Learned]

This is a warm and eloquent novel. The protagonist of the story, Li Jiyan, came to Xiling and lived with her grandmother for a short period of time in order to heal the pain caused by her spouse's cheating, to escape the unhappiness caused by conflicts with relatives, and to relieve the pressure of life itself. During this period, she was also slowly healing her inner pain and getting out of the suffering of life. This book describes the story from the war period to the present, that is, from the great-grandmother, grandmother, mother to Ji-yeon. The time span is very large. The way Ji-yeon and her mother Mei-seon get along is described in great detail, that is, they both long to be the winner or in a high position in this relationship. In order to resist the beauty who doesn't understand her, Zhiyan often blurts out some very hurtful words, trying to return the pain she suffered before intact, but at the same time she is also bearing the backlash of these words. In fact, until the middle and latter part of the book, the relationship between her and her mother was still very awkward and "unfriendly". One felt that I was only doing it for your own good, and the other felt that you didn't understand me and we couldn't talk about going together. In the end, neither of them won in this relationship, and they were the only ones who were hurt. This story does not have many ups and downs and is fascinating. It tells the story of women since the last century, including the tight or close relationship between them, the hand extended to each other in difficult times, and a letter when they miss each other. A book like black tea, recommended.

Two lines describe the life conditions of women in the family. In the context of the times, women's emotions are ignored and the harm they suffer in the family will be a haze that cannot be shaken off for life. The few tender scenes with the grandmother are particularly precious.

I never thought it would be such a tearful book before reading it. The sympathy between women is so touching to the soul. The greatest love between people is understanding and empathy. The best way to love is to listen sincerely. However, due to various real situations, such as mother to herself, grandmother to mother, hurt and love often go hand in hand. I hope that women in the same situation will go hand in hand. All students can escape from the cycle of intergenerational harm. Understand people like the mothers in the article. Their environment is the biggest factor, but understanding does not mean forgiveness, because the harm is real. Understanding them is to give yourself a world. Nowadays, feminist thoughts are rising, and we also stand on their flesh and blood. There is no need to criticize them, just move forward in a big way.

Korean women's literature was very popular some time ago, and an up owner who liked it very much recommended this book. Korean culture is quite similar to ours, and I will resonate a lot when reading this book. It is worth reading.

The plain language hit my heart and tear ducts firmly. When I read the end of the book, the protagonist began to face himself, and my mother began to face the pain of the past, my tears left speckled traces on the pillow. When we encounter pain and problems that cannot be solved, it is common and common sense to escape. Like the characters in it, I roughly covered up my cries and doubts deep in my heart, pretending to live a boring life day after day peacefully, but this did not make me better. However, during this period, I finally realized that escape has a time limit. I am not a brave person. I will escape from my bad self, escape from the pain that I dare not face, and escape from things that I don't want to deal with. A series of escapes made my life seem more and more boring, and my personality became more and more numb. Recently, I began to face my inner voice. I started talking to myself, and I began to seriously consider my real thoughts. I began to have goals and big things I wanted to achieve, and I would continue to work hard for the best results.

The simple and delicate text outlines the stories of four generations of women. On a bright night everything is looking up...

A very heartwarming story, great-grandmother, grandmother, Aunt Xinyu, Xizi, Grandma Mingshu, mother, sister and I. After my grandmother and I reunited after many years, these unforgettable stories were unfolded again in our memories. The difficulties and struggles of women in that era, great-grandmother and Aunt Xinyu were like It is a flower that blooms in suffering, and love takes root between two people. The conflicts between grandmother, mother, and me are also narrated in the story, "It is easiest for mothers to forgive their daughters." The lives of four generations and the connections between them are presented before our eyes. Friendship and love support them as they go on. ——Are you getting better? --Certainly

After reading the entire novel, I cried many times. In the end, what moved me most was the life trajectories of these four generations of women - wonderful, but also thrilling. Poverty, hardship, slander, deception, and bullying, they experienced almost everything, but in the end they came through step by step. Just like what is shown in the book: let things go with the wind and flow; when you are tired, find a relatively comfortable place to take a good rest and recharge yourself. And I also realized that among these four generations of women, grandmothers may be the most difficult and loneliest generation. She has not received a higher education and has never left her hometown. She can only stay where she is. Later, the people around her left one by one and walked further away, until finally only my grandmother was left alone. She was obviously so lonely, but she still chose to endure it quietly, pretending that everything was fine. This is really sad. But it is also in them that I see a commonality that spans generations. Women of every generation have very similar qualities: great love and quiet understanding. It is these two points that bring them together, inspire and support each other, and allow them to live a brave and peaceful life in the cruel reality.

I like it very much. It records women's lives in a delicate and real way. Both sensibility and rationality are written down. I like it.

Good! The story of four generations of women is clearly written. It spans time and the intersection of past stories and reality is also written very clearly. The communication between mother and daughter is very real and reminds me of the dialogue between myself and my mother. The novel touched my heart and I shed tears several times without realizing it.

"As for the title of this book, the author once said that the century-long period that four generations of women walked through in the book is like a long night. However, it is not a dark night where you can't see your fingers, but a bright night full of faint brilliance. If life is a long night, illuminate the long night. What is the journey of life? I think it must be love. It is the mutual help and friendship between the female characters in the novel that support each other through the endless darkness, so all this is possible." When reading this book, it is difficult not to feel the joy and sorrow along with the characters, and cry many times.

A work that belongs to women, four generations of women, with different levels and circumstances, but all women have such a strong power to warm others, warm life, and ultimately learn to warm themselves. Although we live in different cultural environments, every woman in the world is ourselves. May all girls give themselves warmth and strength first.

Spanning a hundred years, the stories of four generations of women include love and estrangement. Perhaps people can never truly fully understand each other, but those good times together are real and are a bright presence in the long night.

The super delicate emotional expression makes me feel that this is no longer a novel but an autobiography. I don't know what kind of meticulous observation ability, appreciation of small things in life and rich emotions the author possesses, and how he uses accurate expression ability to integrate many similar but indescribable feelings in my life so clearly into the text.

My genius girlfriend and I - Michuan and Xinyu, Yingyu and Xizi, Meixian and Mingji, Jiyan and Zhiyou, every era has female friendships in every era. The appearance may be different, but inside it is the deep love of one woman for another woman, and even the first support on the road of life. It is a very heart-warming story about the hard-working lives of small people in a grand era. With hope, there is also light to illuminate the night. I hope you all live every day in your own way.

A particularly beautiful book. You can always find a "little me" similar to it in the delicate words. It makes me feel that the words are alive. I can't help but shed tears when I read it. It is a good book that is easy to empathize with.

After reading it, I felt like my heart was wrapped in a finely woven net.

I am very attached to my mother, she was my inspiration and I rely on her very much. She gave me my initial understanding, planned my route, and told me how to do things. Grandma said that I have a strong shadow of my mother. In fact, we can't talk about going together. When I was younger I had a lot of questions and wanted to find a concrete answer. But it was too difficult and unnecessary for the mother, and she didn't have the time. I don't know if today's parents regret in their spare time – they haven't been close to their children for a long time; they have too few stories of companionship and experience together; what the hell is marriage? The very sad thing is that we once thought about getting closer, but we felt embarrassed or the strings were not on the right chord. We obviously wanted to get closer, but it was teasing and hurtful to push us away. Families won't be too distant, but they won't be close either. I didn't understand it before. After all, my questions were not that broad before. I asked what was bothering me. The mother's words are very similar to those in the book - why should we remember things that hurt ourselves? It should be forgotten so that you won't feel sad. I once did not have the confidence or courage to express and differentiate this statement. But the older I get, I don't think that's right, and I'm getting better at making judgments. This result makes me very desperate, and I have always insisted that equal love is not equal. Everyone is escaping and abetting to endure, but most of the victims are enduring and forced to forgive. If you can't wait to apologize, you can only forget it yourself, so you won't feel sad. I think it's sad, it's weak. Some weak people will never cause serious harm in their lives, but some weak people will evolve into despicable and shameless perpetrators. Such as family, such as some comments, such as deep-rooted prejudices and jokes. It is very sad to find that sometimes a light tone and indifference can buy you the respect you deserve, but greetings and care can become a signal that you can be hurt. Whether in Europe, East Asia or the Americas, women's issues are worth pondering. In fact, often the victims and the most terrible perpetrators are women. They hate their own identity and pursue the right (men) to despise or even spurn people of the same gender as themselves. The most terrifying thing is between mother and daughter. It is a flower that you try your best to grow with your own hands, and the flower should become what you want it to be. Some of the answers are really unanswerable. Even if I turn to the person who I think is the fairest and wisest person for this situation, my mother - she understands our emotions and can make the most humane and fair judgment about us, but the final answer is still protective. Because she knows me, she deliberately says seemingly unfeeling things that I can stay away from to soften my heart. The final result is that I am the one who bears the suffering, and I am the only one left to remember the past and the consequences. Because we are both women, I am her daughter and she is my mother, and we understand each other well enough. It was a desperate moment. I witnessed the crumbs becoming an emotional trash can. I used my immature brain to barely make sense of daily life, and anxiously thought of solutions... So I saw the confrontation between mother and daughter in the darkness. It felt incredibly familiar to me. I once broke down and had a huge quarrel with my mother on the elevated road, although externally I said it was all my fault. But I understand that I was not wrong, but I made the mistake of breaking out at that location, which posed a safety hazard. I once wrote about my dissatisfaction and doubts (that was the germ of my questioning), and I raised my doubts and criticisms about my mother, but my mother discovered it. In fact, those vicious words were not my intention, but love tortures us, makes everything go bad, and speaks indiscriminately. My mother didn't accept my lifestyle, didn't really like my looks, didn't like the way I dressed, and didn't think my interests were a good thing - they make you have a lot of muscles, make you fat, and don't look good. In fact, there are many things that cannot be judged or forgiven. We love each other so much that we are destined to be entangled and tortured. But the premise is that we can truly accept ourselves, instead of being ashamed and living for some standard. For example, I don't think that a healthy 120-pound person will be uglier than a malnourished one of 80 pounds. I don't think that a single eyelid will be uglier than a double-eyelid. I don't think that laughing when you are in contact with nature will be unsightly. I don't think that beauty photos must be taken when taking photos. It would be a blessing if a person's life could be recorded. Many times a symmetrical face is not as good as a bright smile; a neat and dignified sitting is not as good as the sweat beads in the sun. The so-called bland marriage is not as good as a truly comfortable and loving life. If possible, be a person who can work hard to live according to your own hobbies, not be an affiliate, and love yourself and the world. There is not so much discussion about fairness and love could be pure. Instead of attaching all kinds of presumptuous will to make it taste bad, become hateful, confused and hard to find.

A thought-provoking feminist literary work

Thank you for accompanying me with this book. Until the end, after reading the translated summary, I was very excited and even wanted to cry. In this book, I saw the fate of several generations of women, and followed the author through their lives unconsciously. I had resonances, confusions, and many thoughts. I have experienced the power of women. What makes me happy is that the encounter with this book really stayed with me for a while. Zhiyan's experience resonated with me and my current situation. She also experienced the pain caused to her during love, and also had parents and relatives who were not understood. I can feel her feelings. She also took a series of actions, including self-rescue, friends, the company of her grandmother, the healing of small animals, and the confrontation with her closest mother. These are all necessary, and she is brave. The women in the book are also powerful, which made me see the power of friendship and the importance of sincerity. Thank you, thank you for existing. I also hope that I will be like the author, going through pain and becoming myself. Love has never been the most important thing in life, and men never deliberately become their own support. I understand that women and mothers in the village are anxious to get married, because they live in their era, but I am "Zhiyan", I live in the present, I am myself, I am not them, and I should not be affected by their thoughts. Please all women, after everything, continue to live your life!

I kept crying until the end. It's a very powerful work. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time to read it immersedly today. Thank you to the writer for writing this kind of story. The power of literature is unlimited, and the power of women is unlimited. It turns out that it only takes a few hours and about 100,000 words to read Lifetimes of Several Generations. Not too detailed, but enough Why is it written so well? The character seems to be right in front of me I felt a little weird in my stomach after reading it, probably because of the tears. Anyway, thank you I want to buy a physical book, but I don't know when I can do it.

Natural language flows into my heart like a river, and then turns into tears flowing out. Very warm and touching.

The author's writing is really good. Each person is a dynamic and complete painting, but when we meet, we find that the uneven edges are so similar. After putting together a larger puzzle, I realized that they were originally connected by threads. It turned out that Sanchuan, Yingyu, Meixian, Zhiyan and their relatives and friends Xinyu, Mingshu, Xizi, Mingji, and Zhengyan were all reunited after being separated. A very maternal, very loving and powerful book.