"Peacock Bodhi" Author: Jiao Dian Publisher: New Star Publishing House

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Introduction

"Peacock Bodhi" is the first collection of novels by young writer Jiao Dian, with a preface by Mo Yan. It contains 11 stories about the Yunnan rainforest that seem real or illusory.

In the gaps between cities, there are large tracts of rainforest.

Once you step in, you will find that elephants here are light, crocodiles are compassionate, and time breaks free from linear rules and flows freely.

There really are six-legged horses here, with a relic in their hooves, and you can fly into the sky by riding them; there are Mulan boats here, and you don’t even need to prepare oars, just drink half a cup of rice wine and drift away along the river; even if you have a broken leg, you can still return to your home in the forest by sitting in a wooden wheelchair and walking for two moons.

Of course, there are women here. They can understand the language of the rain forest, and they are smart and brave to an extreme. No one can control them. Whether they are riding horses or driving boats, as long as they have two legs, they will run.

Editor's Recommendations

★ Mo Yan wrote the preface and Yu Hua recommended it! The first novel collection of Jiao Dian, a female literary knight from the Flower Valley of Yunnan

- Mo Yan: "I am both pleased and envious of Jiao Dian's understanding of novels. She has not been writing novels for a long time, but she has already shown her talent."

★ 11 surreal and fantastical stories about the Yunnan rainforest: the spiritual journey of wild elephants, witch doctors and urban dwellers

- We grow, we expand, in every direction!

- It’s okay to not listen, it’s okay to not follow the social clock, will you join me?

- We will love everything steep: poisonous mushrooms, missing people, stray wild elephants and barren papaya trees

★ How open the world is, how brave they are: no crying, no venting, a kind of gentle thrilling

- Mo Yan: "The women in Jiao Dian's novels have a certain witchy quality."

- Zhang Li: "It is very different from the familiar female writing. There is no crying or venting. It makes us feel thrilling in another way."

- Peacocks never fall down, they always grow upwards; they light fires at night and shoot at everything

★ Spirituality×Fairyness×Wildness, a new voice that amazes the literary world!

- As hazy as witchcraft, as clear and vigorous as spring clouds! With fresh and brilliant writing, it opens up a new territory of southern writing!

- Recommended by Bi Feiyu, Su Tong, Ouyang Jianghe, Ye Zhaoyan, and Xu Zechen, and published in top literary journals such as People's Literature, Harvest, and October

★The same good book as Mo Yan and Yu Hua's "Godly" variety show "I'm Reading on the Island 2": Dive into the light and bright rainforest dreamland on the summer beach far away from the city

★ Silver hot stamping on the cover, pearl luster, exquisite and elegant! Free printed silver bookmark