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Si Jidong, a writer born in the 1970s, has been diligently writing short stories. The 17 short stories collected this time are selected from various stages of his 20-year creative career. Among them, "Nessun Dorma", "Why Are You Guilty", "Xiliang" and other works have frequently appeared in various selected magazines, annual anthologies and ranking lists. "Si Jidong's novels have a distinct physicality. Every inch of the body's skin is in close contact with life, so it shows richness and complexity." Si Jidong "consciously infuses national emotions and symptoms of the times into avant-garde narratives", "the formal avant-garde nature of the work and the reality of the theme are organically integrated", showing the new generation of avant-garde literature's "artistic consciousness of the symbiosis of personal daily experience, social emotions and mental symptoms."

The works include more than ten representative short stories and short stories by Si Jidong, which are all published in well-known literary publications such as "Harvest" and "People's Literature". Among them, "Nessun Dorma", "Why Are You Guilty", "White Teeth", "Xiliang" and other works have frequently appeared in selected magazines and annual book selection lists. Some commentators believe: "Si Jidong's novels have a light and unrestrained aesthetic quality. However, behind the shallow ironic words, we can clearly understand the perversity and weirdness of human nature. The author is especially good at dealing with seemingly ordinary lives, with a slightly humorous tone, going straight to the absurd parts of life, and always reaching the end."