A collection of essays with the quality of reading a novel, it is also a book that "recognizes the heart and recognizes people".
The author Cai Chongda, based on his feelings for his relatives in his hometown, uses an objective, meticulous and calm way to tell a series of stories engraved in the flesh and blood. The customs, customs and changes of the times in a fishing town in Fujian are all reflected in these tender yet cruel stories. The book title "Skins" is used to express the author's nostalgia for his parents and hometown, and his concern for the fate of his friends. At the same time, he also answers those questions that we always have to answer.
The book includes 14 works including "Skin", "Mother's House", "Disability", "Christmas in the Intensive Care Unit", "My Divine Friend", "Zhang Meili", "A Xiao and A Xiao", "Genius Literature Exhibition", "Hopu officinalis", "The Sea Can't be Hidden", "May Every City Not Be Castrated", "Questions We Always Have to Answer", "Going Home", "The Train Is About to Leave".
Among them, the Atai in the article "Skin" is a 99-year-old old lady with no education, but she is a goddess. However, she taught the author a life attitude with inspiring power: "The body is for use, not for service."
In "Mother's House", the mother wanted to build a house, a four-story house, because "no one around here built to the fourth floor. When we built it, we really stood up." For the house, she worked hard, picked up vegetable leaves, and refused everyone's sympathy, even though she knew that the house would be demolished soon, just to "have a home to return to in this life."
As for the father in "Disabled", he leaves home, returns, becomes ill, struggles, strives for dignity with all his strength, then fails, is reborn as a child, and finally leaves. The father was illuminated. Illuminated with difficulty, with disgust, love, intolerance, pity and care. In this process, the author grew up. Since the 1970s, the image of father has disappeared in literary writing. In Cai Chongda's book, this image reappears.
This special "newcomer's new work" was supervised by Han Han and was well received when it was released. Mo Yan, Bai Yansong, Alai, Yan Lianke and others commented that it was a surprise in current writing. Perhaps "Skin" is really a new forest of "non-fiction" writing, a forest that is completely different, readable, and unique in appearance.
