The Collected Works of A Lai (Steps on the Earth)

Author: A Lai
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: A Lai is a Tibetan writer whose creative journey began with poetry. His poetry, with its pure language and transcendent imagery, portrays the elegant and vast yet quiet life on the plateau. Since the mid-1980s of the last century, A Lai has tried to depict the lives of Tibetans in his narrative style. He has moved beyond the pastoral approach, using pure and flowing Chinese to express the living conditions of Tibetan farmers, showcasing their dignity and confusion. A Lai does not speak as an advocate, shouting and, but listens quietly to the beating heart of a nation and amplifies that voice. This "cross-ethnic writing" shines with extraordinary brilliance. The long-form geographical prose The Staircase of the Earth was written in 2000. A Lai views the series of mountains gradually ascending from the Chengdu Plain to the top of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the "staircase of the earth," and his words are as dynamic and boundless as the scenery itself.