Abstract Notes

Author: Shi Tiesheng
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The Notes of a Tiger is a long novel composed of twenty-two paragraphs, narrating the impact of social transformations since the 1950s on a generation of people including disabled person C, painter Z, female teacher O, poet L, doctor F, and female director N. This book is Shi Tiesheng's first novel and also his semi-autobiographical work. We will silently gaze, across a short distance, across vast time, gazing at the beauty and impermanence of life, savoring the richness and brevity of history. He or I, remain silent yet deeply moved. He turns the hand rims of his wheelchair, the wheelchair moves forward, backward, circles, spins 180 degrees, 360 degrees, 720 degrees—like a dance, like a newly invented game, with no background, no land, not even a blue sky. He sits there, moving lightly, spinning skillfully, as if he has mastered this game.