"Good and Honest Man" Author: Gu Xiang Publisher: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company

Introduction · · · · · ·
Writer and painter Gu Xiang's new novel collection is launched

Eleven "good and honest people", eleven kinds of love and loneliness

After "Good Kitten" and "Zhaoqiao Village", a fantastic fictional masterpiece

“Even in a world where all the ordinary people have ordinary lives, there are still incredible people with incredible lives!”

【Highlights of the Works】

★The new novel collection of writer and painter Gu Xiang is now on the market, a love letter to honest and kind people - Gu Xiang, the writer who painted "Good Kitten" and moved away from "Zhaoqiao Village", has handed in her new novel creation after many years. The free and unrestrained wandering life, the unique understanding of the world, and the interest in exploring the universe weave into Gu Xiang's novel world. These stories are based on the imagination, inspiration, and experience in daily life, full of fantastic ideas, and the writing is free and light, but it writes about the weight and unwillingness of life. "It is like this that I am enthusiastic about the world, but keep a distance from the world."

★Eleven kinds of love and loneliness, born as human beings, powerless and sentimental - "I hope that all kinds of ordinary people can live all kinds of ordinary lives, rather than all ordinary people having only one ordinary life." An urban white-collar worker whose rented house caught fire, an old lover who met at a music festival, an old man traveling in the suburbs of Shanghai, a man who adopted a rabbit in Peace Park, a student who fell in love in a foreign country... Eleven "honest and good people", eleven kinds of love and loneliness. They live clumsily and honestly, seeking a little love and comfort in the storms of the world. In the seemingly peaceful daily life, there are always one or two sad things hidden. "These people suddenly appear and disappear suddenly, like a group of mushrooms, a tree, a gust of wind, a planet, and everything in the universe."

★The author devoted himself to drawing the book jacket, which is a wonderful and interesting literary illustration, interpreting the scene of the novel - Gu Xiang drew the cover illustration, interpreting the scene of the novel, presenting scene elements from many works such as "Peace Park", "Spherical Seagull" and "Sinking", accompanied by images and texts, forming a unique aesthetic style.

【Content Introduction】

"Zhaoqiao Village" writes about the romance of seasons and nature, and "In Russia" records the life of studying abroad in the millennium. This time, writer Gu Xiang brings a new collection of novels "Honest Good People", which includes eleven short and medium-length works she has created in recent years. The swallow seller, the former lover in Peace Park, the old man in the suburbs of Shanghai, the friends at the music festival, the urban white-collar workers whose rented houses caught fire, the students who fell in love in a foreign country... These people suddenly appeared and disappeared suddenly, like a group of mushrooms, a tree, a gust of wind, a planet, and everything in the universe. They live clumsily and honestly, seeking a little love and comfort in the storms of the world. In the seemingly calm daily life, there are always one or two sad things. Gu Xiang's brushstrokes seem light and free, but they write about the weight and unwillingness of life.

【Celebrity Recommendation】

Gu Xiang writes about that kind of person very well: he can cope with life with a small amount of stuff, and this does not constitute an insurmountable difficulty. This person knows a friend who is like a waste, and he himself is almost the same. From their perspective, the mainstream people's firm opinions and views are full of absurdity every day. Although they are also absurd, they can produce warmth and romance from useless things.

Gu Xiang writes about another kind of person: If you don’t know about his story, he is just an ordinary person. But once you hear about it, and you have a low gaze, that is, you don’t like to look up to the powerful, you can immediately recognize that he is like a hero. He is the kind of hero who calmly uses his own abilities, relies on and trusts himself, and does not fight or compete!

Having experienced ups and downs, and tasted the pain and joy that a person should have, he lived an honest life, never plundering other people's property, and often gave others a funny time. Gu Xiang himself is such a person.

——Shen Dacheng (novelist)