Wencheng

【Editor's Choice】

★ After eight years, Yu Hua's new full-length novel is back!

◆Life is your own past and the prologue of others

The torrent of the times pushes everyone to make their own choices.

This is a barbaric era, the end has not yet ended, and the beginning has not yet begun.

◆We always read about our own feelings and even our own life from writers of different times, countries and languages. If there are some mystical forces in literature, I think they might be.

—— Yu Hua

★Yu Hua who wrote "Alive" is back! This time it's not just a breakthrough in time and space

◆Tell the love, hate, sorrow and joy of various characters in a small town in the south

The ups and downs of the life story draw out the warlords' melee and the era of banditry

◆Lay out a soul-stirring picture of the times

Incorporating magical colors into folk narratives, the time and space stretches, the characters are diverse, and the plot is ups and downs

◆Compose an absurd epic about fate

Delicate and grand, comfortable and brave, mixed with black humor, expressing the fragility and flexibility of life

★ Cover illustration personally selected by Yu Hua

◆The cover illustration comes from the work "Amnesia and Memory: Man" by contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang, with a unique style and far-reaching implications.

【brief introduction】

In the initial impression of Xizhen people, Lin Xiangfu was a man covered with snowflakes, his face covered by his hair and beard, with a humility like a weeping willow and taciturn like a field. Even after he became the owner of Wanmudang and the Carpentry Club, his humility and silence remained unchanged. His past is tied to a mysterious city, and no one knows why he's looking for a place that doesn't exist.

He didn't belong here originally, his hometown was in the far north. For a promise, he uprooted himself and drifted here. In the days that followed, he had seen a warm and sincere heart, and also seen cold and merciless blood. In the end, he was in vain, but many people's concerns and tears were left on him.

"Where is Wencheng?"

"There will always be a place called Wencheng."