Short Story Collection: The Man Who Lost His Past Love
by A Yi
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Latest collection of short stories by A Yi written during 2012-2015. Eight profound stories about the reality of people from bottom of the society. A Yi is like a magician who touches the urban life, past and present and the vision of ordinary people, and presents modern society’s pain of desire. The illiterate old woman came to the city and lived with her granddaughter together, but they hated each other gradually and died in two days successively; the villagers chased a mysterious old man and showed the extraordinary creativity of brutality after getting the optional disposal right; the prominent writer suffered a lot due to the talented rookie and could not face the judgment of fate since then
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Author Biography
A Yi is One of the most talked about fiction writer in China. He is called the Chinese Franz Kafka.He has led a former policeman life and has been exposed to the country’s grubby dark underworld. His works present a vivid and sordid portrait of contemporary China with a bizarre literary style and a utterly unsentimental worldview. The universal themes of his works are loneliness, defeat and mediocrity.He has also published fiction in Granta and The Guardian.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Yilin Press
- Publication Date June 2016
- Orginal LanguageChinese simplified
- ISBN/Identifier 9787544759601
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 36 CNY
- Pages212
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2016
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