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"Dust Settles" Author: Alai Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Dust Settles" Author: Alai Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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◎Winner of the 5th Mao Dun Literature Prize, a literary classic with millions of copies sold
◎ Alai, a heavyweight writer who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for many years, is the youngest winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize in history
◎From the perspective of a foolish young master with foresight, it tells the story of the collapse of the last Tusi family on the snowy plateau
◎Poetic and lively language | Inspiration from Tibetan folk tales | An allegory of the rise and fall of an era
◎The exclusive final version approved by Alai, newly published for the 20th anniversary of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, comes with 3 exquisite photo cards, and a limited edition with Alai's personal seal
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【Content Introduction】
An old and powerful Tibetan chieftain, Maiqi, had a foolish son with his Han wife after drinking. This fool, who everyone believed, was incompatible with real life, but had the ability to foresee and behave beyond the times. When other chieftains were planting poppies, the foolish young master suddenly suggested planting wheat instead. As a result, opium was in oversupply and no one was interested. A large number of hungry people went to Maiqi's command. The territory and population of the Maiqi family reached an unprecedented scale. The foolish young master also married his beautiful wife Tana and opened the first border trade market in the Kham region. However, when the foolish young master returned to the Maiqi chieftain's official residence, a bloody family dispute over inheritance rights quietly kicked off...
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【Recommended by famous experts】
The language is light, charming, and full of lively poetry, showing the author's outstanding artistic talent. ——Award Speech for the Fifth Mao Dun Literature Prize
I believe that for Alai, writing is a divine thing. Everything depends on chance. When the chance comes, the story will naturally emerge from someone's consciousness and spread in the world. - Tie Ning
The success of "Dust Settles" is not so much a success in narrative as it is a success in language, in the final analysis it is a success in poetic and heterogeneous expression. - Ji Dimaga
His storytelling is a game of signifiers, renaming everything in his world with extraordinary sensibility. Then, the dust has settled. - Li Jingze
With his determination, creativity and tenacious spirit of exploration as a writer, Alai was able to creatively absorb the elements of Latin American magical realism, while successfully breaking away from the influence of Latin American novel masters, thus avoiding becoming a reptile crawling at the feet of the masters. ——Qiu Huadong
Alai's novels are full of a sense of "simplicity", which is "anti-technical" in a certain sense. His words run freely in the fictional space. The language is simple, plain, elegant, and poetic, natural and not gorgeous, especially the "simplicity", which is mature and honest. Therefore, such "simplicity" is inevitably accompanied by strange "Zen" that sometimes goes beyond the boundaries of narrative. - Zhang Xuexin
Rather than saying that Alai is good at describing Tibetan life, it is better to say that he is good at describing the division, wandering, anxiety and hidden pain of people living in the cracks of heterogeneous cultures. - Zhang Li
About the Author
Alai
A Tibetan writer, the youngest winner in the history of the Mao Dun Literature Prize and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for consecutive years in recent years.
Born in Maerkang County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, he graduated from Maerkang Teachers College. He was the editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief and president of Chengdu Science Fiction World magazine, and is currently the chairman of the Sichuan Writers Association.
He started writing poetry in 1982, and later turned to writing novels. His major works include: novels "Dust Settles", "Epic of Ji Village" (six parts) and "King Gesar", "Zhan Dui" and "Records in the Clouds", poetry collection "Lingmo River", novel collections "Bloodstains of the Old Year" and "Silversmith in the Moonlight", long essays "Stairs of the Earth" and "Utopia of Grass and Trees", etc.
In 2000, his first novel, The Dust Settles, won the "Fifth Mao Dun Literature Award". In 2009, he won the "Seventh Chinese Literature Media Award·Outstanding Writer of the Year Award" for his six-part series, The Epic of Jicun (originally titled The Empty Mountain). In 2018, Mushroom Circle won the Seventh Lu Xun Literature Award for Novella. In 2019, Notes in the Clouds won the "Five One Project" Outstanding Work Award of the Central Propaganda Department.
