Love and parting

Author: Xie Ting
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: A truly novelistic work, distinguished by its exquisite, profound, and nuanced philosophical insights and narrative tension. This novel traces the family history of a completed yet utterly bizarre utopia, serving as a rare "ukiyo-e" (ukiyo-e) depicting a city and a family. Xie Ting, the eternal learner of life, dedicates his talent to observing the common people, recording a microcosm of an era in this book—the vastness of a city, a street, and a household, the insignificance of a single blade of grass. Perhaps it offers an alternative model of life. Through this, we see the inherent humility and helplessness of humanity, the plight of the common folk who have food yet hunger, clothes yet coldness in spirit and emotion; their life of meekness and drifting; the changes of life as described in the ancient Chinese saying, "A woman says nothing, yet her words hit the mark." Narrative is paramount. Xie Ting's narrative is rare and moving. With the radiant brilliance of his storytelling, he pierces through the sky of the story and the clouds of human relationships. With the warmth and fragrance of his narrative, he fulfills his responsibility to write about family matters, human affairs, worldly events, and emotional matters. The stories in the book are entirely those in the readers' hearts. Xie Ting's sentiments may resemble the "Record of Political Affairs" compiled by Hai Rui after his forced retirement. Xie Ting exposes the flaws of human nature with compassion, the hardships of worldly affairs with sincerity, leading the quality of the novel toward purity and resilience.