Long night half a life

Author: Wu Zheng
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: A single era, several characters, spanning half a century of temporal and spatial depth. The novel is set against the backdrop of the historical changes in the dual cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong, portraying the hesitant life journey of urban dwellers, their bewildered spiritual world, as well as the intense collisions between values and life philosophies that are always caught between choice and indecision. This is precisely the life reality experienced by the author's generation. This book is a new long-form masterpiece by Wu Zheng, a renowned Shanghai-born writer living in Hong Kong. The author breaks from his traditional realistic writing style, forging a unique path by depicting the historical transformations of contemporary Chinese society through the conflicts and evolution of a few characters' psychological worlds. Employing a creative technique that alternates and overlays innovative stream-of-consciousness, psychological flow, dream flow, temporal flow, and linguistic flow, the novel vividly portrays the so-called "rupture in life." In terms of artistic creation, the author has reached a new realm of seamless unity and integration between tradition-modernity, reality-illusion, and narration-metaphor. This work possesses significant intellectual depth, philosophical insight, and artistic mastery.