Love Gallery

Author: Zhang Kankang
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Love Gallery expresses the love ideals hidden in the hearts of some intellectuals, white-collar workers, artists, and ordinary people who yearn for a noble life. In an increasingly pragmatic society, genuine affection between people becomes rarer and more precious. In this novel, the author attempts to replace literary narration with the language of artistic painting. As readers walk through this long gallery, admiring the images born of love and simultaneously nurturing love, telling family stories that are also told by love, will you not also feel the tremors of the characters' inner passions, the warmth in their murmurs, the profound sorrow, and the ultimate victory of rationality over self? The story unfolds between a misty Jiangnan small town and a rugged northern metropolis. This may hint at collisions and fusions of certain cultural concepts. Perhaps more subtly, it expresses the contradictions of adherence and movement, clamor and tranquility, exclusion and tolerance, and immersion and buoyancy in this unpredictable world today. If we look closer, we can see that the love in this "gallery" originates from Suzhou in the 1990s. Especially, a novel that depicts love in the language of painting, and then in the form of an illustrated book, would be what kind of delightful reading experience. Words give us imagination about love, while the lines and blocks of color in the illustrations will transform those black-and-white words into colorful birds of love, flying above the city and between the clouds.