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"It's Not Bad to Die Here" Author: Ma Jiahui Publisher: CITIC Press Ten Years Collection Revised Edition

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Introduction · · · · · ·

About the Author · · · · · ·

Ma Jiahui is a well-known, interesting, stylish and well-known Hong Kong writer. He is a professional bookworm, an atypical backpacker and an attempted gangster. He is afraid of the dark, the cold, hunger, flying and people. He has a delicate mind and is full of contradictions. He is affectionately called "Little Brother Ma" and "Literary Tony Leung" by readers, and is also known as "a passionate and righteous essayist".

His first novel, Dragon Head and Phoenix Tail, won the 2017 Taipei International Book Fair Novel Award, the 10th Hong Kong Book Award, and was named one of Shenzhen's Top Ten Books of the Year in 2016.

Table of contents · · · · · ·

New version preface: When we reach the final stop Preface 1 If the journey is uncomfortable Liang Wendao Preface 2 A journey of mountains and rivers Original preface by Zhong Xiaoyang The promise of youth Kyoto·Hana-meeting/Kyoto food/Care/There is always a reason to set out/Lost/Little monk/Seppuku/The sky is not long and the earth is not long/Kyoto's father Kagoshima·The remains of love letters The warmth of a foreign land/Who is sitting in my car?/Bored horse/Farewell to Mr. Natsume/Meeting Kuniko Mukaida Go forward Arashiyama·Snow Country Train Go forward, go in/Snow Country Train/Indoor white/Jumping off the stage/The place where the sun rises Emperor and the breeze Beautiful day·Sakura's daughter Tavern/Shemale/Lost/Little cuttlefish/Furoshi woman/Eating etiquette/Hand gestures/The aesthetics of death/Hidden eyes/Gentle and obedient/Going out, after/Pervert/Childhood alley/Solemn/I remember Kamakura·Mr. Ozu is waiting for us The sky in Nara/Children's singing/Mr. Ozu is waiting for us/Graveyard in the rain Stomach attack Seoul·No Day But Today!
Hiding from the wind like dodging bullets/The dimples on the head/The longing eyes/The excited taste buds/The noodles beside the ice cubes/The sucker of the octopus/Lévi-Strauss is not here/The noble Levi-Strauss/The end of the tunnel/The corner of the wanderer/The woman who is greedy for fresh food/The philosophy in music/The hotel of mystery/Integration/Alien, each other/Simple food/Skills/They are watching us The novelist on the Elbe River A little pervert/Don't worry/The language of love/Sweetie/The first thing after making love/The leisurely time/Unprecedented tenderness
/Chinese-speaking woman Prague·Kafka's eyes on the way/Smoking room/Hungry afternoon/Kafka's eyes/No Kafka on the bridge/The little girl who aspires to be a knight/Square/Light and heavy Vienna·My Freud on the train/Unexpected acquaintance/Freud/The price of peace/Matches Salzburg·Young traveler Salzburg/Castle/Castle of destiny/Mozart's hair/Young traveler/Missed/Bookstore England·Letter Jealous woman/Joseph Needham and Lu Guizhen/Meeting Michael Jackson in Oxford/British beef shop/The chained book/
Step out of the pub/The aftermath of the terrorist bomb/Coffee and cigarettes in London/Eat a piece of fried fish/Too much
Tomorrow
Reunion in Oxford·Finally back homeThe sky suddenly gets dark/Climbing the stairs/Crying for the first time/Turning around and unexpectedly meeting Istanbul·HuzouTravel addict/Writer in the airport/Huzou/City writer/Asking De Botton/Long corridor/Can’t buy, old clothes/Bookstore face/Just for the title/Another way to write about sceneryKenya Jogging on the plane/Not traveling/If running naked on the grassland/Meeting with elephants/Far away from AfricaEdinburgh·Reason for cryingParis·Is Hemingway’s early morning station/Very Paris/Under the tower, on the tower/Hemingway’s ParisVenice·Water is a gentle placeDeath in RussiaBoston·By the water stoveToilet on the plane/Crazy immigration officer/Zhao Yuanren’s scholar daughter/Eating porridge on the campus on a cold night/In a foreign country/The book of life, the book of confession/Flying ninety thousand miles, and returning to dust/What to put in your mouth?
Love to Hate in Las Vegas
Luxor·Soul Lost in the Yellow Sands Luxor/Hurghada/As Long as There is a Pen/33 Moving Forward/33 The Mysterious Woman Is Not the End
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