The Seventh Day Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Xinxing Publishing House

★Italian Literary Award: Portelli Lattes Grinzana

★Chinese Literature Media Award·Outstanding Writer of the Year

★Top Ten Novels of the Year by Asia Weekly

A soul tells the story of its life in seven days.

A man named Yang Fei died, but his soul seemed to be still here. He followed the foggy road of memory and met all kinds of souls:

He met the love of his life, they loved each other recklessly but were separated by fate;

He met the young couple who lived next door to him, whose hopes and disappointments had slipped into his dreams through the thin walls of their rented house;

He met a pair of celebrities in the newspaper, who were enemies in life but happily played chess together after death;

Finally, he met his adoptive father who had been missing for many years, and finally understood why he left without saying goodbye...

The Seventh Day is Yu Hua's fifth novel, a work that interweaves despair and warmth, "brave but not narrow-minded, humorous but not lacking in solemnity". After the lonely souls meet, they tell each other, and their voices interweave into a forest of stories, and finally they are no longer lonely.

"We sat around the campfire, and in the vast silence there surged thousands of words, which were the humble lives speaking for themselves."

"We sit in silence, not for anything else, just to feel that we are not one, but a group."

“Like a tree returning to the forest, a drop of water returning to the river, a grain of dust returning to the soil.”

Yu Hua

Writer, professor at Beijing Normal University.

Born in April 1960, he began writing in 1983. His major works include Brothers, To Live, Xu Sanguan Selling Blood, Shouting in the Rain, The Seventh Day, Wencheng, etc. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages ​​and published in more than 40 countries and regions. He has won the Italian Grinzane Cavour Literature Prize (1998), the French Knight of the Order of Literature and Arts (2004), the French International Courier Foreign Novel Prize (2008), the Italian Giuseppe Acerbi International Literature Prize (2014), the Serbian Ivo Andric Literature Prize (2018), the Italian Portelli Ratus Grinzana Literature Prize (2018), the Russian Yasnaya Polyana Literature Prize (2022), etc.