Pink manual

Author: Ye Mi
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Ye Mi's self-selected collection includes several powerful works, including her breakthrough novel "Growth Like a." This woman, who began writing in her late twenties, seems to have rejected meticulous craftsmanship, often adopting a natural and candid writing style. She presents what she wants to convey directly and incisively, with an urgent impulse to express, to the point where her works are not always "structure" and can appear rough. More importantly, her novels allow us to touch the texture of life and feel the long accumulation of experience and emotion, which brings a rational and detached examination of "people" and "events" in her stories. While this may not necessarily lead to worldly wisdom, it certainly implies a deep understanding of life—after removing all the rosy, gentle layers from her characters and their stories, Ye Mi presents us with rough and arduous scenes of life. Her novels often resemble a sharp stone, piercing through the weak and false aspects of life we try to conceal, forcing us to confront reality. Additionally, there is the possibility of seeking transcendence within this sharp and demanding truth.