Tamarouge

"Tamalu Song" is one of Dai Runxuan's short story masterpieces. The novel describes a group of people drifting in the spiritual wasteland with the intersection of three lines of fate. Fei Wan, a young man who imprisoned himself in a rented house after being fired, accidentally embarked on a westward journey with his neighbor Wang Qiwen without a destination; Ava, the goddess of the Tamalu tribe, quietly accumulated the courage to walk out of the mountains among sacrifices, education and sheep. The three clues are intertwined between the wilderness and the city, ignorance and civilization. Some people are looking for a home while escaping, while others find themselves homeless on the way back. This is not a story about redemption, but a story about recognition. Acknowledging that we cannot save each other after all, we will still hold out a still mobile hand at the edge of our respective abyss. When the rain finally falls during the Grain Rain season, everyone will face their own bones and flames - the hardest things left after being crushed by life, and the things that are still burning and refuse to be extinguished. With cold and precise language and highly stylized narrative, the novel systematically explores the cracks deep in the spirit of modern people. Those unnamed illnesses, those love that cannot be grounded, those subtle but definite pains that have been crushed by the times are given a sensible and physical texture in Dai Runxuan's writings.