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Li Jing, Song Shinan, Dongdong Qiang, etc. Highly recommend it! Zhang Lixian was the first author recommended in "Duku" 1604, one of the top ten best books in 2016 on Sina's Good Book List, and one of the 2016 best literary books in "China Reading News"! I haven't seen a master of writing for a long time, but he comes with bad intentions, such as "single sword into battle, killing people with an inch of iron", light, fast, neat and elegant, fresh as washing, and delicate as silk. The cold eyes and warm heart hidden in the market call for the souls of everything that is darkened in the lights of the prosperous age and languishes in the dust. An old soul, obsessed with recording the wind and roots of ordinary people, writes about the hometown and people in the Northeast that Xiao Hong, Xiao Jun, and Duanmu Hongliang have not written about. This is the first collection of essays by Jia Xingjia (blog name "Aleph"). There are more than 30 essays, which are transformed into "people", "world" and "travel". Taking Harbin and other northeastern cities as the background, he depicts the fate of his ancestors, parents, relatives, friends, neighbors, and other people, as well as the filth, beauty, and sadness of this world. He records the helplessness and solemnity, humbleness and nobility of life, and evokes the souls of those people, lives, and cities who are deprived, humbled, insulted, and ignored. Regardless of whether we are high or low, we all walk a journey in dust until we return to dust.

This is a book of prose notes about life and life. The author, Jia Xingjia, uses gel-like writing style and extremely rare sincerity to record these "a flash of thought, a fragment, a word and an action, a scene, and an old event" stroke by stroke. The threads of "impermanence", "abandonment", "abnormality", "softness", "method of living", "foreign", "dirty", "gloomy", "hatred", "industry", "reminiscing about the past", etc., Show the vastness of life, human heart and human nature, and outline the scrawled lives and our scrawled views of life. As the author said: Due to the insignificance of human beings, "reality" is always surprising.