Half-Born

"Half Life" uses a simple and simple writing style to describe the traveling life of rural orphan Chen Shi from childhood to youth. From growing up on one's own in a dilapidated house in a deserted village, to making a living in the dust and mud on the outskirts of the city, to sitting alone in silence in a secondary vocational school, to wandering after entering the society, the times are slowly moving forward. The dirt roads were paved with cement, buildings were built one after another, and people of the same age rushed to their own lives with smartphones, but Chen Shi always carried an old Nokia that could only make calls, and walked alone in the world. He has spent half his life running on dirt roads, and half his life standing amidst fireworks. The novel hides the flavor of human life in ordinary daily life, and writes about the fragility and tenacity of life at the bottom in silent places.