"Room by the Sea" Author: Huang Liqun Publisher: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction
A representative collection of short stories by Taiwan's new generation novelist Huang Liqun, Twelve Broken People, Twelve Good Stories That Make You Take a Breath. The novelist brews elegant and delicate Chinese, with a delicate layout, neatly cuts the joys and sorrows of the world, and writes about the cold world of a city's abnormal love: an abandoned daughter and an adoptive father in an old apartment, a fortune teller in the countryside and his sick son, a sleepwalking otaku, a middle-aged woman living alone and a calico cat... The playfulness of the language and the unexpected frozen endings, as well as the meticulous observation of ordinary people and things, constitute the unique textual tension of the work. Impermanence is often the most common, and the writing of the world by the old soul, warm and cold, touches the hearts and minds of ordinary people in the market, the desires and sorrows of frustrated people, and our daily difficulties and loneliness.
◎ Highlights of the Work
★ Impermanence is often the most common. This is the representative work of Taiwan's new generation novelist Huang Liqun. It is published in simplified Chinese for the first time. The novel "Room by the Sea" won many literary awards in Taiwan, was highly praised by cross-generational writers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and is highly anticipated by Douban. The Chinese novel "Room by the Sea" is coming in midsummer. Huang Liqun is a representative figure of Taiwan's new generation of novelists. Her short story collection "Room by the Sea" won the Times Literature Award, the United Daily News Literature Award, the Lin Rongsan Literature Award and other Chinese awards. The film adapted from the novel of the same name was selected for the Golden Horse Film Festival. The simplified Chinese version is launched for the first time. The author personally selected the articles and added 3 new works. It is the crystallization of her more than 20 years of writing career.
★A fortune teller of love, writing about the world with an old soul, moving the small organs of great destiny - with a shrewd heart and a cunning pen, novelist Huang Liqun brews elegant and delicate Chinese, with a delicate story layout, predicting love and destiny, and neatly cutting off the drama of human joy and sorrow. The writing about the world with an old soul is warm and playful, cold and beautiful, moving the hearts and minds of ordinary people in the market, the desires and sorrows of frustrated people, and our daily difficulties and impermanence. The beauty of the perfect Chinese language, indulge in Huang Liqun's love formula.
★The world of urban abnormal lovers, twelve broken people, twelve breathtaking good stories - love songs for lonely patients, settlement in the inn of life. "I wrote about all kinds of ugly, sporadic, withered, and ruined things, those small flaws in life that I can't help but touch again and again. If a person can't find a comfortable position in society, he must deceive himself, and he will become bad if he deceives himself for a long time." The playfulness of the language and the unexpectedly frozen reversal endings form the unique textual tension of Huang Liqun's works.
★ "It has been a long time since I reached the boiling point of reading and felt my skin burned." Guo Qiangsheng, Luo Yijun, Ke Yufen, Zhang Yiwei, Qi Jinnian and other writers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait praised it. ——"The talent is gorgeous and beautiful, but there is a chill in that beauty. Huang Liqun's writing is as warm as the sun and as fast as wind and rain. On a sunny afternoon, I still feel that the peaceful years are warm and happy, but in the blink of an eye, dark clouds cover the sky and heavy rain falls."
◎ Comments and recommendations
Words are inherently noble. Her stories are like the miraculous swaying of amoebas under a microscope.
Li Qun is just like this, with a gorgeous and beautiful talent, but there is a chill in that beauty. Her writing is as warm as the sun and as fast as the wind and rain. On a sunny afternoon, I still feel that the peaceful years are warm and happy, but in the blink of an eye, dark clouds appear from nowhere and heavy rain falls. - Ke Yufen
Liqun's novels let us hear another kind of "why not" question, why can't innocence be hard to swallow? Why can't despair be boring and trivial? Her novels reveal a leisurely, unconventional, and unsurprising attitude, but instead create a unique theme - beautiful brokenness. There are not many novels worth looking forward to, and I finally waited for this one. - Guo Qiangsheng
It has been a long time since I felt this way: facing a book, I read it word by word, as if I was afraid of finishing it, and I was reluctant to read too fast; I reached the boiling point of reading, and almost burned my fingertips touching the pages. I was surprised to find such a good novelist - Huang Liqun's "Room by the Sea" is really a collection of novels that can define what a masterpiece is. - Qijinnian
A clever mind, a cunning pen, and a proud person. - Fu Yuean
The writing is delicate and sharp, and the structure is clear and amazing. I have never seen women's jealousy written so deeply and so hurtfully. - Ji Ji
Reality is the most unpredictable, but the characters in the novels themselves long for a normal life; the dialectic between impermanence and normality is the main topic of Huang Liqun's latest collection of novels. "Oh, you are here too?" Zhang Ailing asked. Where? In the investment market, like Huang Liqun, with a kind face, put on a vest that regulates the rhythm of time, tighten it a little, tighten it a little, and indulge with her in the formula she loves. - Ji Dawei
Huang Liqun's "Tasting Food" explores the complex connotation of maternal love from a small perspective.
In Taiwan, Huang Liqun has many readers, not only because she has won four literary awards from the three major newspapers in the island within five years, but also because of the ups and downs of life under her pen. She restores the story to the story itself, neatly and cleanly, just to show readers a set of tragicomedy dramas. The first time I read her work was the short story "卜算子" with AIDS as the theme. The sick son has to take care of his adoptive father, which is like a game of rock-paper-scissors between a serious illness and aging. The novel is written calmly and steadily, pushing forward the depression that can be imagined in common sense layer by layer, without fighting or fleeing. To use a fashionable word, the ultimate nothingness of life is like an unfinished game of chess that remains static in the family. This is a tricky subject, but there is a very touching sentence in the text. Huang Liqun wrote, "Impermanence is often the most common." - Zhang Yiwei
In Huang Liqun's most famous short story "The Room by the Sea", the most original thing is not the violence, lust and even ethical drama that are common in social news and film and television dramas, but the "weird self-evident nature" that the author attempts to capture. In this way, the absurdity of reality that we talk about all the time is transformed into the "natural law" of the world by the novelist. - Zhang Dinghao
What the author is holding is not a pen, but a knife. - Douban user Zhinuan
I had the same surprise as when I first read A Yi's "Bird, Saw Me", but I read a different theme. "Abnormal love" may be the most dazzling theme in Huang Liqun's short stories, but she is far from stopping there. With her mature layout and casual style, she seems to be understating but actually talks about many "possibilities", loneliness, emptiness, or waiting, and even the absurdity and black humor in ordinary life. There are some shadows of McEwan's early years, especially "First Love, Last Rite". ——Douban netizen MagicDon