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"A Pile of Feathers" Author: Liu Zhenyun Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House Hardcover
"A Pile of Feathers" Author: Liu Zhenyun Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House Hardcover
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"A Pile of Feathers" is a collection of short and medium-length novels by Liu Zhenyun. In addition to "A Pile of Feathers", which was adapted into a film and television work and is well-known to the public, the collection also includes "Ta Pu", "Headman", "Recruit Company", "Unit", "Oral Message" and "Behind the Tuyuan Drumbeat", and Liu Zhenyun's officialdom novel "Officialdom" is newly added.
The descriptions of units and officialdom included in the collection can be regarded as the earliest officialdom novel in China; "Oral Message" is the part of the novel "Cell Phone" that focuses on the countryside, and it became the embryo of his later masterpiece "One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences".
From these old works, we can get an insight into the concerns and focuses of Liu Zhenyun's early creations. These short stories are also Liu Zhenyun's works when he first came of age, but they show considerable maturity and sophistication. Even today, they are still not outdated after years of refinement and are even more classic.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Liu Zhenyun was born in Yanlu County, Henan Province in May 1958. He served in the military from 1973 to 1978. In 1978, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University. After graduation in 1982, he worked for the Farmers' Daily. From 1988 to 1991, he studied for a master's degree at Beijing Normal University and Lu Xun Academy of Literature. He began to publish his works in 1982. His current novels include "Hometown Yellow Flowers", "Hometown Get Along and Spread", and "Hometown Noodles and Flowers" (four volumes). His works include "Collected Works of Liu Zhenyun" (four volumes), "Ta Pu", "A Ground of Chicken Feathers", "Officialdom", "Official", etc., with more than four million words. He is currently a member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Beijing Youth Federation, a first-class writer, and the director of the Cultural Department of the Farmers' Daily.
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