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Chen Cun's novel collection "The First Apple" includes eight short stories including "When I Was Twenty-Two", "Old House", "Joke", "Family of Three", "Bear", "Dad", "Sunrise·Impression" and "The First Apple". It is one of the pocket book series of the Shanghai Writers Association. Chen Cun's novels are mainly descriptions of ordinary life events, showing people's complex psychology of self-esteem and inferiority, and revealing his deep concerns about life. The work uses a seemingly plain, ironic, and abstract style, but it faithfully depicts the helpless and helpless phenomenon in real society, and there are deep thoughts on life between the lines. Recent novels have a strong sense of experimentation, but still maintain personal concern for real living conditions.

"Flowers and" means "flowers and cow dung". The novel mainly talks about the relationship between men and women and family issues in daily life in the metropolis. The protagonist "I" is a laid-off male writer who is "at home". In the novel, he talks tirelessly about the city where he lives, his environment, things at home, his daughter, his live-in girlfriend, his nanny, and the various friends around him. He talks about his troubles and depression. , Anxiety and embarrassment, which undoubtedly expose the emotions of "midlife crisis" and "middle-class anxiety", as the author said in the "Postscript": "To commemorate our daily lives... The peaceful years, there are no legends, just daily life will kill our lives."