Zero Degree Youth

Author: Kai Feng
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This is a young adult romance novel. It's a story about a young man and three girls. The memories of youth are too sorrowful and fragmented. Standing at the zero point of time, looking back at the passing years, those memories, the distant youth, everything, inevitably make one shed tears. That young man born after the 1980s, admires literature, loves music, and has a distinct personality. He often wanders in the world of Haruki Murakami's novels, writing stories until dawn, and listening to Richard Clayderman until the early hours of the morning, feeling heartbroken for those past youth, for the youth forgotten at the edge of zero. Those gentle and sentimental girls are all fresh, beautiful, and ethereal, like beautiful water spirits in a university campus, jumping, bursting, blooming. Nietzsche once loudly said, "I have done that." Whenever I think of this sentence, I cannot help but recall the past—the days that belonged to youth, which have long gone, gone forever. In the seasons unknown to anyone, they were carried away by the wind to a place unknown to anyone—the edge of zero life. This is our youth, thin and pale, like the lonely figure of the homeless wandering on the streets of a cold winter night. Zero is both a starting point and an end. It is the beginning of love and also the end of love.