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The young boy Li Tianwu is deeply attracted by the mysterious temperament of the girl An Ge who sits at the same table. In fact, the beautiful girl An Ge also pays attention to Tenwu everywhere. One night after class, she "encountered" the lustful Tengo in a secluded small park. It turned out that they had both appeared in each other's dreams. The song Ange sang to Tengo was called "Little White Boat", and the metaphorical story of the lyrics unfolded because Ange ran away under the night and disappeared. Top student Tengo vowed to become an excellent detective, but his teachers who didn't know what he was doing regretted that he applied for the police academy. Li Tianwu, a high-spirited police academy graduate, partners with veteran policeman Jiang Bufan. They rush to the scene of serious crimes in a small northern town, searching for clues for the traces of the missing girl An Ge in the unsolved case. And the detective Jiang Bufan is indeed "extraordinary", and he practices "the most respectful way to the victim is to solve the case." Unfortunately, during a snowy winter, the master and apprentice were accidentally attacked by a sniper.

The first prize winner of the 2020 Blancpain Utopia Literary Award is Shuang Xuetao's latest collection of short stories, consisting of eleven novels. Unlike "Moses on the Plains" and "The Aviator", which have a strong Northeastern regional flavor, this book is more open and free in terms of creative subject matter and narrative method. There are five chapters on a small northern town, two on the history of the Republic of China, and four on life in Beijing. The time line runs from Beiping in the Republic of China to the present in 2018 and a future full of science fiction. Each of the eleven stories is an independent world, with completely different experiences of time and space, and atmosphere and rhythm. The author writes about the situations of people in daily life in legendary stories, and seeks and constructs an individual spiritual world in the situations of ordinary people. No matter what time and space it is, this kind of spiritual quality that belongs to oneself cannot be taken away by anyone. No matter how big the storm is, one must hold tight to the rudder. This collection of novels is about ordinary people, about brave people, about desire, and about compassion.

"The Age of Deafness" is a self-healing work by the novelist Shuang Xuetao. It is like telling the past into a tree hole, sealing it with mud, and cherishing it in the future. Different from the sharp and cold style of "Moses on the Plains", he used gentle writing style, energetic and sincere Chinese, and loving and tender eyes to examine the dreams and scars of his youth, to write biographies for people who lived like him, and to tell the stories of those who lost their voices in the deaf-mute era. This novel was written at the age of 28. At that time, he lived a double life of working in a bank during the day and going home to write at night. "The day I finished writing, it was already summer. I knew that I would never be able to write such a thing again. Maybe I became a different person. From then on, I will live as another person."

Your books haven't mentioned the name Winged Ghost, right... Most people in the Snow Kingdom have two hands, two feet, and one head, which is called five bodies. When people in the Snow Country describe worship, they often say that all five of them have fallen to the ground, which means that all five of them have touched the ground. Just like what I am doing now, it is actually kowtow. But as you can see, in addition to these five bodies, I have two other bodies that cannot touch the ground. These are my wings. Of course you can laugh at me, but you don't have to cover your mouth secretly. My wings are indeed ugly and small, and they can't compare with your wings. But when I was in the Snow Country, these small wings were enough to make me serve a lifetime of hard labor and become a lifelong prisoner.

"Notes of Tengo" is a masterpiece by novelist Shuang Xuetao. The awakened Tengo, who only has 100 hours to live, meets Xiao Jiu, a girl who is fading, on the streets of Taipei. He is looking for a church that is taller than the 101 Building, where the secret of the disappearance of his young friend An Ge is hidden... Taipei and the Northeast, a two-city story where time, space and reality intersect, eleven chapters are born "Notes" on the boundary between life and death, on the other side of fantasy and reality, a pursuit between the future and memories slowly unfolds: the whereabouts of the girl An Ge, the policeman Jiang Bufan whose life and death are uncertain, the woman Mu Tianning from S City, and Li Tianwu who is walking by the Tamsui River, can they solve the mystery and complete the mission?

This book is Shuang Xuetao's first collection of short and medium stories. The book contains 10 works with different styles. The themes include campus growth, strange people stories, detective suspense... The author's writing style is simple and cold, but also has an irrepressible willfulness on the surface of the text. Behind the calm and calm narrative contains the characters' inner peace and the extraordinary of simple things. In the almost calm storm, everyone is driven away by fate. In particular, "Moses on the Plains" has been widely praised by readers. The novel tells the story of the past that was revealed by a taxi driver's murder case - a teenager from Yanfen Street became a criminal police officer responsible for investigating an old case 12 years ago. The suspect gradually pointed to the father and daughter of his childhood neighbor.

This book contains a total of nine short stories by Shuang Xuetao. Among them, "Assassination of Novelists" is the original novel of the movie of the same name starring Lei Jiayin, Yang Mi, Dong Zijian, and Yu Hewei. The nine stories in "The Aviator" tell the dignity and freedom of mortals, awakening the gentle miracle deep in human nature, and the language is very graphic and impactful. Most of the places where the story takes place are declining northern cities. Yanfen Street, Shadow Lake, Guangming Hall, Hongqi Square, Chunfeng Dance Hall, Red Star Billiards Club... This place is full of dilapidated streets, abandoned factories, and people of all kinds. Most of the characters in the story are forgotten marginalized groups, Jiuzang, Little Orange, lunatic Liao Chenghu, "young delinquent" Liu Ding, Gu Niao'er, trainer Ruan Ling, "Crazy Horse" Ma Feng, "aviator" Li Mingqi... They are fish caught on the shore by the tide of history. In "The Aviator", it is this group of people, in such places, that make the blood, dignity and freedom of mortals shine.

"Moses on the Plains" is the representative work of the novelist Shuang Xuetao. It contains ten short and medium-sized stories with a strong style, among which the work of the same name is the most classic: Christmas Eve in Yanfen Street in 1995, a mystery hidden in heavy snow, an unseen appointment, a heart born in the hand... People expelled by fate, they are the down-and-out, slipped from the gears of the times, and they are also messengers, carrying the secrets of crime and punishment. Only the love and faith of mortals can separate the waves on Yanfen Street and open up a path to redemption. Ten masterpieces of contemporary short stories hidden under the ice, wash away the dirt, tighten the fate, and send the soul to a temple that is rarely visited.