"Wencheng" Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House Producer: New Classic Culture Douban 2021 Chinese Literature (Novel Category) NO.1

【Editor's recommendation】

★After eight years, Yu Hua returns with a new novel!

◆Life is your own past and the prologue of others

The tide of the times pushes everyone to make their own choices.

This is a barbaric era. What is ending has not yet ended, and what is beginning has not yet begun.

◆We always read our own feelings, even our own lives, from writers of different times, countries and languages. If there is really some mysterious power in literature, I think it may be these.

——Yu Hua

★Yu Hua, who wrote "To Live", is back! This time it is not only a breakthrough in time and space

◆Telling the love, hate, sorrow and joy of various characters in a small town in the south

The ups and downs of life stories lead to the sorrow of the times when warlords fought each other and bandits were rampant.

◆Unfold a moving picture of the times

Incorporating magical elements into folk narratives, the story is full of time and space, with a variety of characters and twists and turns.

◆ Compose an absurd epic about fate

Delicate and grand, comfortable and brave, mixed with black humor, it tells the fragility and flexibility of life

★ Yu Hua personally selected the cover illustration

◆The cover illustration comes from the work "Amnesia and Memory: Man" by contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang, which has a unique style and profound meaning.

【Content Introduction】

In the initial impression of the people in Xizhen, Lin Xiangfu was a man with snowflakes on his body, his hair and beard covering his face, humble like a weeping willow and taciturn like a field. Even after he became the owner of Wanmu Dang and the Woodware Society, his humility and silence remained unchanged. His past was connected to a mysterious city, and no one knew why he was looking for a place that did not exist.

He didn't belong here originally, his hometown was in the far north. For a promise, he uprooted himself and drifted here. In the days that followed, he saw warm and sincere hearts, as well as cold and ruthless blood. In the end, he gained nothing, but many people's concerns and tears stayed on him.

"Where is Wencheng?"

“There will always be a place called Wencheng.”