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        September 2018 - September 2023

        Desert Hunters

        a great fable written by the author Xuemo in a plain and realistic style

        by Xuemo

        Desert Hunters Xuemo  Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia    Desert Hunters is a great fable written by the author Xuemo . This is what is different from Desert Rites.In Desert Hunters, every section is a vivid scene of life,and every chapter is a grand depiction of the society;It forms an epic historical picture in the whole work .There are more than 50 characters, and depicts more than 20 species of animals in the book features.The stories of the book revolve around a place called the Pig Belly Well.All people and all life in the area, including wolves and sheep, falcons and rabbits, birds and bugs, foxes and rats, rely on this water well for survival.   Images of all figures demonstrated fierceness and kindness,suffering and joy, helplessness and endurance,nature and feud, greed and strife.all scenes seem to be distant but familiar, vast but subtle.   Every character, every animal seems to be the mouth of God in these book,telling stories about their own transgressions and the following aftermath.Through layers and layers of conflicts between humans and animals, humans and nature, and humans for their own fate,the book tells us that tragedies of humanity are rooted in greed, hatred, and ignorance.Those who transgress, those who break the laws of nature, are bound to be punished, bound to suffer in the dessert of the soul,and bound to become a prey that is being hunted on the hunting field of the soul.   It is like the coronavirus spreading around the world,ruthlessly attacking everybody around us,paralyzing industries and forcing countries into long-term lock down, spreading fear and anxiety among all people.However, through the actions of the heroes and heroines, the book also tells us how to create a harmonious conservation between people and their inner selves, between different people, and between human and nature.   The following people will like this book: those who love animals and those who wonder about how to create balance between human and nature, how to make a living ,and how to form a harmonious conservation between people’s life and their own inner world .

      • Fiction
        September 2018 - September 2023

        Desert Rites

        A realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.

        by Xue mo

        Desert Rites XueMo  Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia   Desert Rites is a realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.It takes the author Xue Mo twenty years to write this novel.There are no great figures in this book.What touches people most are those scenes that depict little details in daily life.and those parts about the struggle of soul that each life goes through when confronted with sufferings from reality.   The whole book was written in a Tolstoy-like style,Focusing on vividly depicting the characters’psychological life.It faithfully chronicled a reforming era and one year’s life of a farmer family in western China.For example,faced with life’s hardship,faced with love that is unlikely to come to fruition,Lingguang, the hero of the book, witnessed a family’s history of suffering,and witnessed the souls of a Generation who were in hopeless silence and helpless struggle on the land of western China.   Finally, under the helpless trace,Lingguang chose to leave his hometown,heading towards the solitude in mind that no one ever know.The whole novel portrays human nature in ordinary life, and is a representative work of realism in contemporary Chinese literature that faithfully records the customs and cultures of western China.   Untill now,five different publishers have published different versions of Desert Rites in China .   The following people will like this book:Those who want to know what the society and people’s life were actually like in 1970s China,and those who want to break the “magical spell” of life to elevate their life to a higher level.

      • Fiction
        October 2018 - October 2023

        Selected Stories by Xuemo

        A collection of seven wonderful stories taking place on the silk road.

        by Xuemo

        Selected Stories by Xue Mo is a collection of four wonderful stories taking place on the silk road.The stories features the desert, camels, dholes, yellow sand and a great number of other elements typical in the life of western China,and expressing the themes of love, faith, eternity, life and death, and depicting the souls of the farmers of western China stubbornly arise from pains and suffering.The book is a bridge to the literature world of the novels by the author Xuemo,fitting for reading in fragmented time. Selected Stories by Xue Mo has been translated into more than twenty different languages until now.

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        April 2015

        The Fox Worshiping the Moon

        Xue Mo‘s Poems for Love or for Self-Enlightenment

        by Xuemo

        This is the f irst collection of Xue mo’s poems with its strong rhythmic, deep philosophic, and elegant nature, and it is highly regarded as one of the most meaningful and touching poetry in contemporaryChinese literature. At the beginningof the book, the author expresses a sincere human yearning for love,freedom, and kindness with his profoundly moving and beautiful verses. Then, written in the strikingly imaginary language, he presents a vivid picture about what an ordinary person has gone through in his mind when he is on the path to spiritual enlightenment, and thereby encourages readers’ musings and reflection. It ’s wonderful that in the last part he puts a simple but profound interpretation on The Diamond Sutra, which gives viewers unique spiritual and aesthetic satisfaction. Meanwhile, herein lies the poet’s luxuriant imagery and a series of themes such as life and death, human and nature, eternity and transient, and so on. Thus, it’s thought that the book is less a collection of poetry than a lighthouse guiding the direction in our life journey.

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        The Crunching of Broad Beans at Dead of Night

        The Secret Interview on China’s Silk Road

        by Xuemo

        The Crunching of Broad Beans at Dead of Night   The Secret Interview on China’s Silk Road is a novel based on the interview between a western female sinologist and a writer from Western China,which still sets against the same backdrop of China’s west as many of Xue Mo’s works. As the two’s communications go on and on in the book, it not only presents readers with nineteen vivid and wonderful stories about men,women and animals living in the western provinces of China, but also explores their inner qualities and explains in great detail why their fate is so different from each other.Thus, the book is thought to be the one that can not only make you thoroughly understand the west of China , but also may enable you to read your own destiny.

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