Don't scream: 80s = Seven deadly sins

Author: Han Fang
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Don't Scream is a "confession history of the hearts of people born in the 1980s in China." "The post-80 generation = seven deadly sins," directly facing the alternative survival status of the current post-80 youth. The novel tells the story of urban youth like me (Han Yidiao), Anqing, Qin Lai, etc., facing life with indulgence, madness, and obsession, as well as their yearning and pursuit of ideals, until they struggle, resist, and feel helpless when they are ultimately crushed by reality. After failing in career and love, they all took a helpless path—Anqing fell madly in love with his married ex-girlfriend out of a desire for possession, but the traditional teacher family did not allow Anqing's behavior. After being played by his ex-girlfriend, the pressure from all sides drove him to madness, leading him to be admitted to a mental hospital. Qin Lai's excessive indulgence in friendship, love, and materialism led him to accumulate debts and took the path of embezzlement and fraud, waiting for him was prison. "I" wandered in love, hoping to find pure love, but when material needs could not be met and career failed, the person I loved betrayed me. In moments of loneliness and helplessness, "I" was knocked flying like dust by a garbage truck in the dead of night. A group of young people who will leave you speechless and make your heart race, like blind fish, shedding the scales of youth and desires in freedom and humility, exposing some of the greatest evils and vices of human nature, and the life and psychological state of urban youth. From a social perspective, it is a cautionary work, a "confession history of the hearts of people born in the 1980s in China."