Shouting in the drizzle

Author: Yu Hua
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This is a book about memory. Its structure comes from the perception of time, specifically the known time, or the time in memory. This book attempts to express that people have more confidence when facing the past than the future. Because the future is full of adventures and unbeatable mysteries, only after these end do wonder and fear transform into humor and sweetness. This is the reason why people love to reminisce, as if a flowing river, it ripples eternally and broadly in the different languages of various nations, supporting our lives and reading. The author narrates the joys and sorrows of a family in the first person, delicately portraying how the frail mother completed her life of endurance, her only outburst of anger being at the very end of her life; and how the father, named Sun Guangcai, proudly raised himself into a thoroughgoing rogue. He treats his father and his son as if they were stumbling blocks. The paths of the three brothers only briefly overlapped before diverging in their own directions.