Wang Anyi Works Series · Land of Bandits

Author: Wang Anyi
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The tyrant is not a hero, virtue and vice are just a step apart, shocking and. This newly released masterpiece by Wang Anyi tells the story of an ordinary person in the modern era who, due to an accidental event, finds himself in an extraordinary situation, drifting into the underworld, and living an unconventional life. The choice of subject and literary perspective are entirely different from her previous works, once again demonstrating Wang Anyi's creative resilience and the new direction of her novels, which has garnered attention. The protagonist, Han Yanlai, is the child of a farmer whose land was expropriated in the suburbs of Shanghai. After graduating from high school, he went through several career choices before finally deciding to become a taxi driver. On Christmas Eve, a carjacking incident becomes a turning point in Han Yanlai's life: he is the victim, yet he gradually becomes drawn to the perpetrator, Da Wang, and inexplicably aligns himself with the carjacker, falling into the underworld. The seemingly absurd underworld story becomes believable through meticulous storytelling. Literary imagination and the logic of life have created this long. A popular exterior and subject matter, with the quality of pure literature. The theme of travel, first daringly leading a person from normal life to abnormal life, then, in a chain reaction, from quantitative change to qualitative change, from this shore to the other shore.