August Unfaded (Revised Edition)

Author: Anni Baby
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The 2000-published August Unreconciled is Anni Baby's novel and essay collection, with an equal proportion of fictional and documentary texts. It adheres to a low-key, cool style, interpreting fate and impermanence, love and death, farewells and wandering, forming her unique writing style that continues to this day. Five years later, Anni Baby repeatedly re-examined her representative works from the stage of her writing youth, drastically cutting out most of the essays in the book. The revised edition supplements and replaces multiple short stories from her various stages. In the new August Unreconciled (Revised Edition), the fictional portion thus constitutes the majority, allowing readers to more clearly perceive Anni Baby's current writing—still focused on and exploring the complex emotional situations of a broad range of lonely individuals, the inner world of those on the fringes of society in the city. The inquiry into life and death, emotions and time has truly been her game that has always fascinated her. August Unreconciled (Revised Edition), like several of her recent new books, also adopts unique design forms. The cover uses a close-up photo of a cotton dress she often wears, intricate and magnificent, with a bright silver line cutting through the pattern, giving it a touch of eerie color. The combination of the cover and the concise inner text aims to give this newly revamped "old" book a sense of the "slow determination" she hopes to convey.