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"To Live is to Shout to the Sky" Author: Chen Nianxi Taiwan Strait Publishing House Douban 2021 Chinese Literature (Non-fiction)
"To Live is to Shout to the Sky" Author: Chen Nianxi Taiwan Strait Publishing House Douban 2021 Chinese Literature (Non-fiction)
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This book is the first collection of non-fiction stories by miner poet Chen Nianxi, published by True Story Books.
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As a tunnel blaster, Chen Nianxi dived 5,000 meters deep into the earth, using explosives and jackhammers to blast open the mountain and chisel out gold, silver, copper, iron and nickel.
He went through life and death with Wang Er, Decheng, Xiao Zhazi and others who had the same lowly fate. Some of them turned into a bloody mist in the explosion, and some were cut in half by the air wave. Only he was relatively lucky, leaving only a dislocated cervical vertebra, pneumoconiosis, and a deaf right ear.
Open "To Live is to Scream to the Sky", and these tragic and fiery lives are presented to you one by one. Hard work, impermanence of life and death, each story is as hard and dazzling as the stone knocked off by Chen Nianxi in the depths of the mine.
【Editor's recommendation】
1. The first non-fiction story collection of miner poet Chen Nianxi. The author was invited to give lectures at Harvard University, Yale University, and Columbia University. People's Daily, CCTV, Southern Weekend and other media reported heavily on it.
2. Revive the folk narrative tradition of the Book of Songs and tap into the tragic yet ardent survival power of the Chinese people. It's so shocking.
3. Zhang Li, judge of the Mao Dun Literature Prize: Chen Nianxi's prose is no less impressive than those of famous writers. He has a good talent and good language skills, and relies on a natural instinct.
4. Zhang Huiyu, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University: To Live Is to Scream to the Sky is a book that bears witness to his more than 20 years of wandering life in the northwest and southwest. It is not only a book of heaven and earth from the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains to the Kunlun Mountains, but also a book of life extracted from the labor of hundreds of millions of new workers.
5. The book is accompanied by Chen Nianxi’s latest poetry collection, Explosives and Poetry.
6. If you buy a book, I will donate 1 yuan. This book cooperates with the charity organization "Da Ai Qing Chen" which focuses on the relief of pneumoconiosis. For every book you buy, we will donate 1 yuan to provide scholarships for the children of pneumoconiosis patients.
7. This book takes you to the border areas of China and sees the exotic customs. It crosses the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Yarkand River, and walks through the Salt Lake in Xinjiang, the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, and the vast snow-capped mountains of the Greater Khingan Range...
About the Author
Chen Nianxi, miner poet.
To Live Is to Scream to the Sky is his first collection of non-fiction stories.
His works revived the folk narrative tradition of the Book of Songs and presented the tragic yet fiery vitality of the Chinese people with a desolate and delicate brushstroke.
Zhang Li, a judge of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, commented that Chen Nianxi's prose is no less impressive than those of famous writers. "He has a good talent and good language skills, and relies on a natural instinct."
