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Water Monster
General Fiction水妖
(us) Nathan Hill
His mother, who has been missing for many years, suddenly reappears as a criminal suspect. Samuel, a college assistant who is exhausted and addicted to online games, decides to write a novel based on his mother to fulfill the new book contract he signed ten years ago. He is determined to create the most despicable image in public in order to avenge her abandonment when he was a child. But in the process of searching, he gradually discovered a mother who was completely different from what he knew, and began to reflect on the failures and abandoned idealism of the baby boom generation. In the end, mother and son reconciled, and Samuel completed this ten-part, more than 700-page masterpiece. From the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in 1968 to the Occupy Wall Street in 2011, from a Norwegian town in the 1940s to the Iraqi battlefield in 2003, from the ancient and mysterious house elves to the advertising civilization of the post-privacy era, from childhood shadows to mid-life crises, from parent-child relationships to political farce, from mental illness to economic recession... Kaleidoscope-like and colorful elements are cleverly and appropriately integrated into a unified narrative whole.
His mother, who has been missing for many years, suddenly reappears as a criminal suspect. Samuel, a college assistant who is exhausted and addicted to online games, decides to write a novel based on his mother to fulfill the new book contract he signed ten years ago. He is determined to create the most despicable image in public in order to avenge her abandonment when he was a child. But in the process of searching, he gradually discovered a mother who was completely different from what he knew, and began to reflect on the failures and abandoned idealism of the baby boom generation. In the end, mother and son reconciled, and Samuel completed this ten-part, more than 700-page masterpiece. From the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in 1968 to the Occupy Wall Street in 2011, from a Norwegian town in the 1940s to the Iraqi battlefield in 2003, from the ancient and mysterious house elves to the advertising civilization of the post-privacy era, from childhood shadows to mid-life crises, from parent-child relationships to political farce, from mental illness to economic recession... Kaleidoscope-like and colorful elements are cleverly and appropriately integrated into a unified narrative whole.