Crossing Boundaries Without Borders (Yan Lianke's Prose)

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Features: A series of essays and that observe society, nature, life, culture, and art; pursuing broad, unique, and genuine perspectives; striving for the infectiousness and appeal that convey these perspectives; releasing one mature work, then another; hoping more people can possess brighter and deeper insights. This book includes over 40 essays, most of which are observations and portrayals of the rural life, farmers, and their fate that the author was born into, deeply loved, and could never forget. The author's childhood years, military life, nostalgia, family, friendship, and reflections on writing and reading also occupy significant places in the book. Whether it is longer pieces like Missing Father, The Village and Sex, Six Sayings of the Village, The Vastness on the Land, Three Topics on Llosa, or Language is God, or shorter works such as A Electric Blue Bicycle, Zhao Sen’s Pain or Not, A Boundaryless Crossing, I Am a Tea Blind, or Alternative Warfare, even a sketch or a fragment, all reveal the author’s profound yet spiritual gaze and their attitude toward life, people, and writing. The language in the works is simple, warm, and coexists with truth and goodness, showing unique tension within conciseness and restraint.