Lin Huiyin · The Melancholy of August

Author: Lin Huiyin
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book includes Lin Huiyin's essays, novels, poems, plays (including stage design), translated works, and as many Chinese-English letters as possible. Additionally, it features dozens of photographs at the beginning, almost forming her illustrated biography, presenting a Renaissance-style figure to us.
White ducks swim in the yellow water pond, the sorghum stalks are so tall they seem to pierce the sky; how does this beating heart find its place? A narrow path in the field, in August, what kind of sorrow? The sky is washed by last night's rain, the mountain ridges reflect the sun and leave a shadow behind; the sheep follow the shepherd into the village, under the shade of a large tree, a well is covered, and it resembles a heart! No one has ever spoken of August before; summer has passed, and it's not yet autumn. But as I gaze at the fields and the melons on the walls, I still don't understand how life and dreams are intertwined. — August's Sorrow