We are not human.

Author: Wu Jun
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This is a novel that completely recreates the "ukiyo-e" of the lower strata of society. With an extraordinary and disdainful attitude, it depicts the inner world of the "grassroots class" and the myriad of ordinary people. The novelist Wu Jun uniquely focuses on the hardships faced by the "floating population" and their children in the mid-to-late 20th century, revealing the author's profound humanistic sentiment. The novel employs a "clumsy" technique, a "naive" structure, and a "rustic" language. Such extremity makes every reader reflect; on a dusty street in the northern frontier of the motherland, the fates of those seemingly ugly, coarse, and impoverished men and women are epitomes of the destiny of all humanity. Although we may say: we are not one human being. The novel prays: everything that has disappeared is merely symbolic, and everything imperfect is completed here.