Family life

▶The latest novel of Yao Emei, a powerful writer and winner of the Wang Zengqi Literature Award, uses ingenuity to lay out a new sequence of the family, and creates a strange relationship in the ordinary.

▶"Family Life" is a vivid novel describing contemporary family life, focusing on the family, the smallest basic unit in society, to explore the flow of human nature and destiny. Family is a common motif in literary writing, but Yao Emei has written something new. The language of the novel is simple, but it has the power to control people's hearts.

▶The son who suddenly behaved violently, the man who bought and sold babies, the third party involved in other people's families, and the new family relationship in the age of social networks. These stories originate from our experience and extend new thinking. Emotions, desires and responsibilities, etc., and readers can define themselves in the process of reexamining the family.

▶From the many stories written by Yao Emei, readers can see the sharp and diverse social contradictions in the process of dramatic social transformation. It seems that "both men and women are surrounded by various anxieties and hardships." The author is always more sensitive than ordinary people, and it is easier to find the pervasive confusion in life. She expresses this confusion and gives some lessons, sometimes through very tricky angles. ——Liang Hongying (critic)

▶As a powerful novelist, Yao Emei's creative characteristics are obvious: focus on storytelling, not engaging in narrative traps; The feelings are deeply buried, presenting the harshness of reality to the point of inhumanity; embodying historical consciousness in short stories. ——Shi Libin (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Beijing Literature)

▶Yao Emei is a woman. Behind such a plot design, we can really feel the writer's strong sympathy and compassion for the unfortunate fate of women. Compared with this kind of sympathy, what cannot be ignored is that with the help of this ingenious plot design, Yao Emei put forward a very fierce literary protest against the unreasonable nature of the current society. ——Wang Chunlin (critic, professor of Shanxi University College of Arts)