Trumpet Sound

"The Sound of the Trumpet" is a collection of short stories by Wang Tongzhao, an important writer of modern Chinese literature. The whole book uses deep and delicate writing to describe the living conditions and spiritual dilemmas of various characters under the background of social turmoil in China in the 1920s and 1930s. The works cover a wide range of subjects, including the confusion and search of intellectual youth in the current of the times, such as "In the Car" and "The Horn"; there are also profound reflections on the suffering and fate of the people at the bottom, such as "Shipwreck" and "A Day to Buy Firewood"; and there are also in-depth analyzes of the subtleties of human nature, such as "Ghost Shadow" and "In the Sky". Wang Tongzhao used a compassionate realism style to depict all living beings from cities to rural areas, from intellectuals to peasant soldiers, showing how people struggled in poverty and searched for light in the darkness in that era of "storms and snow". The language of this book is concise and implicit, the images are rich, and the emotions are restrained and full of tension. It not only criticizes the old society, but also contains the unremitting questioning of the meaning of life.