Four

Author: Liu Xinwu
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This volume includes the Shanghai Excellent Novel Award-winning Four, the novella Wooden Stone Ring, and the influential reportage Long Lens on May 19th. Liu Xinwu considers Four his best novel, etching in it his youth and tears. The critics have long pointed out that Four is imbued with the essence of Dream of the Red Chamber and represents a valuable literary experiment. The Four is a symbol and also a place that shook the soul of a teenager. That feeling and impact remain vivid, with wonder, joy, mystery, and a desire to explore surging intensely in the soul. "Finally, I have written a book as thick as all the ones I've written before. In this world, you realize that your book has once stood tall like the Four, but it is bound to be torn down one day. But the imprint on the soul is eternal." The novel is, in a sense, the author's spiritual chronicle. After being ground by the millstone of time and washed by the storms of life, the awakening of conscience flows from the depths of the soul,ing the beauty amidst the enigma in the quiet of the night.