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The Land by the River (a Good Chinese Novel)
General Fiction河边那块地（中国好小说）
Lu Xianjue
The author narrates the story from the perspective of first-person autobiography, allowing readers to experience the last few years of his life almost like the protagonist. His simple language and relaxed tone make people feel the weight of his "living" more and more: After the land was forcibly expropriated, the land-loving old farmer Ding Waiwai only had two stolen pieces of land between two factories, which became the last hope for his life and the life of his later disabled son. In order to keep the last two points of land, Ding Waiwai resorted to the last resort of Chinese farmers, death. We cannot simply think that this is a strategy of Ding Waiwai, but a huge metaphor: land is undoubtedly the root of farmers. What is worrying is how long can the root that Ding Waiwai temporarily preserved for his son Guniu with his life last? Ding Waiwai, who committed suicide by drinking yellow phosphorus, and Guniu, who was severely burned by yellow phosphorus and lost his reproductive capacity, gave us cruel answers.
The author narrates the story from the perspective of first-person autobiography, allowing readers to experience the last few years of his life almost like the protagonist. His simple language and relaxed tone make people feel the weight of his "living" more and more: After the land was forcibly expropriated, the land-loving old farmer Ding Waiwai only had two stolen pieces of land between two factories, which became the last hope for his life and the life of his later disabled son. In order to keep the last two points of land, Ding Waiwai resorted to the last resort of Chinese farmers, death. We cannot simply think that this is a strategy of Ding Waiwai, but a huge metaphor: land is undoubtedly the root of farmers. What is worrying is how long can the root that Ding Waiwai temporarily preserved for his son Guniu with his life last? Ding Waiwai, who committed suicide by drinking yellow phosphorus, and Guniu, who was severely burned by yellow phosphorus and lost his reproductive capacity, gave us cruel answers.