Sky, don't cry for me.

Author: Huo Yan et al
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This book is the same as Trainspotting in being a collection of new concept youth novels. Whether in layout, style, content, or overall effect, they are identical. What first caught my attention was the text on the cover and back cover. "Let the weak among us learn cruelty, face life's coldness head-on, and cherish those we love reluctantly—often, fate brings us together but not destinies." This is also the "Forget-Me-Not" of these authors. Huo Yan keeps gazing at the sky again and again in her writing. The stories around her are too sorrowful, and she longs to forget it all. Yet in Forget-Me-Not, the protagonists are still one by one crushed by the wheels of time, scarred. It turns out that there really are fates, and indeed, no sorrow can be avoided! Jiang Feng's novel To End All Wounds will be serialized in Menghua. In this book, we see the third part of To End All Wounds. Jiang Feng tells us quietly of growth with his skilled writing, clever structure, and fragmented yet intricately connected scenes. Suddenly, I really want to see the complete To End All Wounds, and I wonder, how will those children choose to grow? The next author is Dai Yexing, pen name Yan Ge (introduced in the vitality edition of this magazine in September 2003). Their selected work is Dust-Free and River Child. Dust-Free is a rather unconventional story. Yet, we are already accustomed to legends and fantasies—so who wouldn't understand that the author chooses such a setting, not just for the sake of it, but to construct their own growth model and survival environment? Ji Chen, Ma Jing, Fan Xiaohu, and Bai Xue may have vastly different styles, yet they share the same theme. It's as if we hear a child whispering softly: "Don't cry for me, sky, because we are good children. Good children don't cry."