雨

The heavy rain is boundless, summoning the emotions and memories deep in the Nanyang rubber forest

Taiwan Times Literary Award and Lianhe Daily Literary Award winner Huang Jinshu's award-winning works

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※Editor's Choice※

☆"Rain" is the winning work of the 2017 Taipei International Book Fair Award and the Golden Tripod Award for Literary Books. It is also the winning work of the first Peking University Wang Moren-Zhou Anyi World Chinese Literature Award in 2018. It includes the short stories of the 4th Yu Dafu Novel Award The award-winning work "Return". The author, Huang Jinshu, is a heavyweight Chinese writer in Malaysia. He has won Taiwan's important literary awards - Times Literary Award and United Daily News Literary Award. "Rain" is the first time that Huang Jinshu's works have been introduced to mainland China in their original form.

☆ Whether in the field of creation or research, there is no doubt that Huang Jinshu is representative of contemporary Malaysian Chinese literature (Malaysian Chinese literature). Liang Wendao once said: "One of the characteristics of Malaysian writers is that they pay special attention to the management of language and characters. Frankly speaking, even in today's mainland China, the original place of our so-called Zhongzhou Zhengyun, many novels of the same generation Households are not necessarily as sophisticated and exquisite as them."

☆ Huang Jinshu fights against the oblivion of history with creation and arguments, and seeks a way out for Mahua literature. His creation refers to the life experience in his hometown, inherits the "alternative history" that is almost lost in the past, and manages a magical historical narratology, which makes people re-examine the past in a literary way and ask what the future should be.

☆ The style of this book is magical, and the description is meticulous. Reading it makes people get lost in the depths of the humid and hot Nanyang rainforest, fearing and frightening with that small family, and reincarnating together.

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※brief introduction※

A small family left their homeland and went to Nanyang, living and taking root in the rubber forest of the Malay Peninsula, surrounded by ferocious beasts, aliens with alien intentions and lingering undead. Accompanied by the sudden disappearance and bizarre death of family members, the slow and depressing pace accumulated until a certain day, when explosive and strange mutations burst out, and the flood brought by the heavy rain sometimes led to the other side, and they escaped from the grasp of death. In this world, it immediately turns into a foreign object and casts it into the next reincarnation, and the cycle continues.

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※Recommended by celebrities※

The rubber forest town is always the original scene he conceived. The humid and greasy atmosphere, the simple and unsophisticated people in the city, are gloomy and melancholy, and often murderous. Huang Jinshu is melancholic, but he "must write". It's like Shen Congwen telling his Xiangxi story...but Huang Jinshu is not Shen Congwen. Shen Congwen faces the inhumanity of the world, but he can manage a lyrical vision... Huang Jinshu's works are murderous. No matter whether it is a satirical line drawing or a nostalgic sketch, you feel blood splattered between the lines. ... This reminds us of Lu Xun's style. "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood", writing is a desperate career, and it is best not to be close to idlers. Our literary world is used to false sentiments, and suddenly there is a desperate Saburo, of course we can't wait for it.

——Literary critic Wang Dewei

Modern novels since Kafka have always trekked from spirit to appearance. Now that I have read Jinshu's novel, it turns out to be a poem of swiftness. It can be said that it is bitter, but it can be done quickly precisely because the cultural assets of Mahua literature are lacking or even non-existent. ... He belongs to the academic world, and those few nuclear-level literary theories (I have read "Writing, Soul and Body/On Modern Chineseness" more than once), even if he has not read them, he can feel the radiant energy within the radius. He is more than talented, and he writes novels, so he has more insight into this than any of his MCA counterparts, and makes good use of it, which has become his "Metamorphosis" style.

——Taiwanese writer Zhu Tianwen

Very powerful, very beautiful set of short stories. ... The rainforest familiar to the readers in this collection of novels is more refined in writing, and the development and analysis of the pictures are more vivid. In the story, the facial features are clear, and the scenes are more lifelike.

——Taiwanese writer Luo Yijun