Caged person

Author: Feng Zi
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: In terms of exploring the meaning of life, this is a work of immense value, as it was gained at the cost of the author's youthful pain. It shuns the shameful disease of faking life in contemporary literary creation in mainland China. Feng Zi has experienced eight years of wandering and five years in prison, these gray life experiences have made him tell the story of people in cages as if it were a matter of course, with ease. A person is human when living among people, but like a pig when living in a pigsty, and like a wolf when living in a wolf den. Life and freedom are two kinds of madness. Water has a taste. This book is Feng Zi's second novel after The Wandering Tribe. It tells a story about life and freedom. Set in a prison, it depicts a group of (suspects) with diverse fates and in desperate situations, living in a strange and absurd small world, exploring their desires and choices for life, love, family, reputation, status, and property at the extreme of survival, revealing the factors of emotional mutation, with a melancholic undertone and mysterious philosophical reflections.