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Recommended by many famous writers in the Chinese-speaking world, Hu Qian, one of the most outstanding pens among the new generation of writers and winner of the first prize of Taiwan's 6th Chinese-speaking World Film and Novel Award, "Everything has cracks, that's where the light comes in" burst into the literary world as a dark horse and is a masterpiece after "The Big Split".

When he was making movies, his name was Hu Bo; when he was writing novels, his name was Hu Qian. These two identities are like two parallel lines that have been running through his creative career, constructing two uniquely charming creative trajectories, until they overlapped in the movie "The Elephant Sitting on the Floor". This book completely contains the 30,000-word film shooting script of this extraordinary posthumous work, from which we can see Hu Qian's keen perception and expressive power of literary language and image language. The book also includes Hu Qian's debut novel "Community", which was completed in 2011 but has never been published: sewers in the community flowed across the street, Zhao Xiang, a woman living in the third unit, was killed, and Huang Qiang, the carport manager, was used as a scapegoat. He had to start paying attention to the changes in the community, and slowly discovered the secrets hidden in each household. The secret of the body... It was this novel that started Hu Qian's literary creation. The sharp social insights, ingenious text structure and narrative techniques all present a highly concentrated dramatic tension, and the depressive tone also foreshadowed the theme that Hu Qian continued to strengthen in his subsequent novel writing: the world is a wasteland. Reading this book is like watching a silent movie. His talent, sharpness, and edge are all the energy of life exploding on the white paper. Although two years have passed since Hu Qian left, he is still having an impact on us and the world with his absence. In order to pay tribute to this extraordinary masterpiece, a special film commemorative volume is also produced with the book, which collects more than a hundred behind-the-scenes photos of the movie "The Elephant Sitting on the Floor" for the collection of readers who love this movie.

That riot, which was similar to a massacre, happened at night without anyone noticing, on the seventh day of our continuous card game. This is a six-player game that requires four decks of cards. This kind of cards was born to waste time more quickly. More people, more time to draw cards. Everyone will hold a stack of book-thick cards in their hands, and let time slap them on the table one by one, making a sonorous and powerful sound. We all had a blast immersing ourselves in it. Ding Weiyang and I didn't know how to play this card at the beginning. This card has many techniques, such as burning, suffocating, and dotting, and all the techniques serve one purpose, which is to make life worse than death for the player or opponent. There are a total of six people in the dormitory. Before that, we played hard all day and night. We closed the stall at one o'clock in the morning and lay on the bed to sleep. At noon, we used a few books to suppress the unfinished card games, and came back after dinner to continue playing.

Hu Qian's film "The Elephant Sitting on the Floor" won the Feature Film Award, Adapted Screenplay Award, and Audience Choice Film of the Year at the 55th Golden Horse Awards in 2018. Hou Hsiao-hsien and Ang Lee praised and recommended it, and the original novel was included in "The Big Split". Luo Yijun, Huang Liqun, Chen Xue, and Xiaoye jointly recommend! Hu Qian, a young director and the first prize winner of the 6th Chinese World Film and Novel Award, has a collection of charming, bizarre, surprising, explosive and amazing short stories. "The Big Break", as its name suggests, is a book of hurt. It consists of 15 short and medium-sized novels. Each story embraces the same question that no one can avoid: "How long will we continue to live (get hurt)?" As a generation that is out of place at this stage, There is always an inexplicable sense of tearing between our society and our current lives. Hu Qian writes with explosive words and uses layers of images to pave the way out of "here". We may be here, but we always need to know where the farthest road away from here is. Hu Qian passed away on October 13, 2017.