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The novel tells the story of the ghost of a girl who died suddenly due to love, drifting between the yin and yang realms. In her eyes, all the legends in the world are revealed. But it's not a ghost story, that's just a shell of it. Behind this, there is a bizarre love and in-depth thinking on the eternal theme of death. There are some unexpected clues and answers in the novel. This is a reference book on the philosophy of life, death and love, and a strange one at the same time.

This book is a collection of Xia Shang's interviews, speeches and dialogues. It brings together Xia Shang's dialogues with contemporary writers and critics, his speeches in the media and universities, and interviews with him in the media. There are 13 articles in three series. Through these thirteen articles, the book displays the literary thoughts of Xia and Shang from all aspects, the understanding and views on contemporary literature and its phenomena, the thoughts on one's own literary creation path, etc., Showing everyone a comprehensive Xia and Shang.

"A Wandering Beggar" tells the story of the chaotic gangster life of a group of lower-class workers. The novel begins with an earthquake disaster, and a baby girl with a long tail is born. This baby girl with a long tail is named Curly. She is undoubtedly a collection of misery in life, and her existence undoubtedly reflects the ugliest features and essence of life. Laifu is not a character throughout the whole book, but he and Curly Mao depended on each other for a time, which made Maomao's life still show some warmth. Then a group of Luman, sinister, simple and vulgar guys appeared one after another: Adan, Monk Zhao, Wang Laofi, Wandering Mouse, Black Gangtou, Guoxiang... These people formed a mighty team of lumpen proletarians. In today's terms, they are a complete "vulnerable group". The author uses the gorgeous coat of language to wrap up the ugly body, squeezes high-concentration literary qualities into the disadvantaged groups, squeezes into the original ecological life of China, and describes the living conditions of the "vulnerable groups" at the bottom to the extreme.

"East Coast" combines the narrative techniques of modern novels and Chinese classical novels. The author's writing style is delicate and edgy, yet smooth and vivid, with ease and ease. Critics believe that "East Coast" has rewritten the literary map of Shanghai, subverting the exquisite, petty bourgeoisie, and post-colonial Shanghai imagined by people from other provinces, and revealing its other side that is vulgar, primitive, and muddy. The book has been revised by the author to add the charm of Shanghainese and give readers a new feeling.

After reading through this book, you can feel that Mr. Xia Shang has unique insights into the creation of short stories. What is significantly different from his long works is that his short stories focus on plot structure without excessive elaboration, and the endings often end abruptly, leaving all the meaning and charm. The short stories in this book describe the fate experienced by ordinary people in specific situations in a vivid and tangible way. They not only question the existence of good at a deep level of human nature, but also provide an in-depth analysis of the evil that always follows human nature.

"A Wandering Beggar" tells the story of the chaotic gangster life of a group of lower-class workers. The novel begins with an earthquake disaster, and a baby girl with a long tail is born. This baby girl with a long tail is named Curly. She is undoubtedly a collection of misery in life, and her existence undoubtedly reflects the ugliest features and essence of life. Laifu is not a character throughout the whole book, but he and Curly Mao depended on each other for a time, which made Maomao's life still show some warmth. Then a group of Luman, sinister, simple and vulgar guys appeared one after another: Adan, Monk Zhao, Wang Laofi, Wandering Mouse, Black Gangtou, Guoxiang... These people formed a mighty team of lumpen proletarians. In today's terms, they are a complete "vulnerable group". The author uses the gorgeous coat of language to wrap up the ugly body, squeezes high-concentration literary qualities into the disadvantaged groups, squeezes into the original ecological life of China, and describes the living conditions of the "vulnerable groups" at the bottom to the extreme.

This book is a type of "Xia Shang Novels Series", a collection of novellas, including "Guessing Game", "Suspicion", "Looking at Pictures", "Seventeen Years", "Outline" and other novellas written by the writer Xia Shang in different periods. Xia Shang's novellas are different from the simple narrative style of his novels. They focus more on the exploration and innovation of writing techniques and are full of avant-garde meaning. These five typical modernist style novellas combine narrative strategies of magical reality and metafiction, and the narratives are full of self-awareness. Some stories blend virtuality and reality, using the author's "personal" participation to complete the deconstruction of the text. Some stories set narrative traps with a strong color of showmanship, and some stories use non-standard imagination to complete the criticism of reality.

"The Taxidermist" is one of the "Xia Shang Novels Series" and is a novel by the writer Xia Shang. This book begins with a person meeting a young man pushing a beautiful woman in a wheelchair on a boat, and accidentally picking up the man's lost diary. Using the diary as a carrier, the narrative is interspersed with memories, the past and the present are intertwined and advanced, two loves, and one ending. It is interspersed with a lot of professional knowledge of anatomy and specimen preparation, and is rigorous and solid. From the perspective of a professional taxidermist, it tells the story of two cruel love stories that lead to the same destination through different paths. The author's writing techniques are skillful and sophisticated, and the description of the environment, the characterization of the characters, and the expression of emotions are very delicate. The writing is sometimes beautiful, sometimes popular, and has a strong suspense color. The description of the details and the creation of the atmosphere are particularly praiseworthy. It makes people read without putting it down, and the ending ends abruptly and is profound.

A classic work by a famous novelist. The novel tells the story of the ghost of a girl who died suddenly due to love, drifting between the yin and yang realms. In her eyes, all the legends in the world are revealed. But it's not a ghost story, that's just a shell of it. Behind this, there is a bizarre love and in-depth thinking on the eternal theme of death. There are some unexpected clues and answers in the novel. This is a reference book on the philosophy of life, death and love, and a strange one at the same time.