Love is the coldest killing weapon.

Author: Gan Wei
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: You will inevitably fall into the gentle trap set by Gan Wei, completely passive and helpless. The intricate story, enigmatic characters, eerie language, and erratic rhythm. Sometimes, you feel like you've entered a maze, turning around and around, only to end up back at the hotel you just left. Sometimes, you see prohibition in a mirror, endlessly extending and expanding until it fades into nothingness. Sometimes, you step into someone else's dream and, in the end, become just another dream of theirs.
This is a novel that can be a bit suffocating. There are no characters like Mona, Lola, Qi, Martin, or the Purple-Clothed One; there is only "I." "I"’s fantasies, hallucinations, and auditory hallucinations are killed by love, this cold weapon of love, which kills with love, coldly. On the surface, it is chillingly aloof, but at its core, it is tender and entangled, with a burning undercurrent. This book about love—those who love, those who are loved, and those who love—should all passionately adore it.