Paris, a walking bed

Author: Ouyang Haiyan
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Paris has a magic, where everyone can see a different version of themselves. This book is a soul-searching overseas masterpiece meticulously crafted by the author during her two years in France. In the novel, the protagonist Shi Kaifeng was originally a simple man who loved his wife and children and lived a modest life. However, fate played a cruel trick on him. In a financial and love rivalry in Paris, the death of his beloved wife made him lose himself, and the lack of a sense of belonging led him to resort to desperate means to accumulate wealth, ultimately becoming a coveted billionaire in the Parisian Chinese community. It can be said that he chased endlessly in his life—money, women; struggling between his "true self" and "false self." The novel unfolds through two parallel storylines: a father and a son. The emotional entanglements of a man with several vastly different women are reflected in the eyes of a boy with an innocent gaze. At the same time, it reflects the cruelty of the adult world as seen through a child's eyes, the ruthless means, emotional games, and unstable family lives of men and women, in a silent accusation. It makes one deeply feel the most painful and tragic cruelty of the human world—nothing is more cruel than "the cruelty between people"; it also helps one recognize the immense harm that turbulent and changing lives bring to a child's growth.