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"The Sure Fire" contains three novellas by Guo Shuang, a rising writer and screenwriter born in the 1980s. It naturally presents the tenacity and beauty of three pairs of women in flesh-and-blood words. A pair of friends who have known each other for thirty years use friendship to resist displacement, and their destinies overlap like lush bougainvillea; a single mother tries her best to support her daughter, but her daughter is obsessed with chasing stars. They wrestle, compromise, and reconcile; two female writers become friends year-round because of their appreciation of the beauty of the details of daily life, and maintain authentic intellectual exchanges over the long years. Guo Shuang's writing is strong and full of philosophical thoughts, laying out their unyielding exploration of the true meaning of life in the vivid southwestern Mandarin.

In a world that adults can't see or understand, they are together. Following reality shows, becoming a "fan girl", finding myself in an online support group, and experiencing collective madness, money scams, and disillusionment. Parents and children each carry secrets and unhappiness, but they are also entangled in the instinctive love and sacrifice of family, not knowing that a violent storm is coming. Wu Shan, who has always been a good child, suddenly brought a stranger home... The life of a big factory in a corner of the southwest, with lively experiences of human voices and heat; a girl who has gone deep into her childhood, wandering between the city, her hometown, and between generations. The vast life of two generations of Jianghai is filled with thousands of quiet legends.

Use 20 stories to write about the breath of youth, separated people, the confusion and hesitation unique to youth, which is the medal of love and pain that youth gives equally to everyone. It makes us convinced that even if every dream is as small as a firefly, carefully irrigated with love, faith, and sincerity, time will eventually make them bloom with unique light. In the story, they bravely reveal their past, fragile yet stubborn, true and powerful. There is no prominent identity, no legendary encounters, only ordinary persistence. Even if I try my best in this life, I can only achieve the most ordinary life. "The moment when the stars light up the night sky, it is all the yearning of the fireflies."

A writer born in the 1980s explores the journey of the soul and childhood from the outside to the inside, starting from the "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in his childhood memories, and finally going deep into the family and childhood stories of ordinary Germans. The ten stories include small-town women's struggle for remaining ideals after marriage, childbirth, and daily work; there is the story of two childhood friends who have witnessed each other's growth and pain for thirty years; there is the joy of the heiress of a 500-year-old family; there is the story of a small-town father and son with an artistic dream; there is a retired female kindergarten teacher's journey to the Far East; there is the foreign life of a Turkish man who runs a barbecue restaurant; there is a boy's difficult self-exploration of gender identity; there are two generations of scholars The sound of the magic flute heard in fantasy literature; the story of a painter from Inner Mongolia to Berlin; the memory of war and childhood by Nadya, who was forced to stay away from her homeland during World War II... This is a rare and in-depth description of the spirit and spiritual life of foreigners. Reflect on your own life experience in other people's stories, discover the true meaning of life, and overcome life's problems.