All the Nights in the World Author: Chi Zijian Publisher: Writers Publishing House

This book includes the stories of four sad people, including "All the Nights in the World", "Fragrant Grass in the Swamp", "Grassland", and "Laba Night in Bukilan Town". "All the Nights in the World" is the third work that Chi Zijian won the Lu Xun Literature Award. The protagonist in the novel suffered the grief of separation and death because of the death of her magician husband. In her healing journey, she witnessed the suffering of all living beings and glimpsed all kinds of sorrow in the world. Everyone is trapped in their own pain, and it is the compassion for the world that makes the pain visible and healed. The stories hidden in those sad nights also appear in "Fragrant Grass in the Swamp", "Grassland", and "Laba Night in Bukilan Town". The story can take place in the grassland, swamp, or even in a tavern in the small town of Blanqi in the remote valley of the Greater Khingan Range. However, those who have a past in their hearts and stories in their lives, no matter when and where, when their secret sorrow is poured out and revealed, the sighs and sighs of the same people who are lost in the world will arise spontaneously.

Chi Zijian was born in Mohe in 1964. She started writing in 1983 and has published more than 6 million words of literary works, mainly novels, and more than 90 single-volume books. Her major works include: novels "Manchukuo", "Clear Beyond the Clouds", "Right Bank of the Ergun River", "White Snow Crow", "Top of the Mountains", novel collections "Fairy Tales of Arctic Village", "Andante in the Moonlight", "All the Nights in the World", and prose and essay collections "The Beauty of Sadness" and "My World Snows". She has won the first, second and fourth Lu Xun Literature Awards, the seventh Mao Dun Literature Award, and the Australian "Suspense Sentence Literature Award". Her works have been translated into English, French, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Arabic, Thai, Polish and other foreign languages.