Niu Niu: A Father's Notes

Author: Zhou Guoping
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: If someone asks what meaning this book has for the world, I am speechless. In this noisy era, the life and death of a small life, the joys and sorrows of a small family—what significance can they have? This book is a product that does not ask for meaning; it is for readers who do not ask for meaning. A father guards his child who is destined to die young, a scene that is extraordinary yet heartbreakingly real. Niu Niu—the daughter who was both unlucky and fortunate—after living in this strange world for five hundred sixty-two days, left with a lingering attachment and longing for it, with the doubled affection of her parents, quietly in her father's repeated desperate prayers. Retinoblastoma, a disease with a prevalence rate of only one in twelve thousand, was unfortunately inflicted upon the lovely Niu Niu, making it the hundred percent fate that this unfortunate family could not escape. Whether we like it or not, despair exists in the world! Niu Niu was diagnosed with a terminal illness shortly after birth and spent her short life of one and a half years, incredibly adorable yet tragically pitiful. In this book, Zhou Guoping writes about the loveliness and pitiability of his daughter Niu Niu, the love and sorrow intertwined in his wife's and his heart as they nurtured her under the shadow of death, and the reflections by the cradle and the grave. For the author and his wife, Niu Niu's story is the most beautiful yet tragic in their lives. At the age of one and a half, Niu Niu, waving her small hands, took a light sigh and stopped breathing, leaving this world. The deeply emotional Zhou Guoping, however, used his pen to capture the five hundred sixty-two days he spent with Niu Niu, her loveliness and pitiability, and the love and sorrow of nurturing her under the shadow of death. Wei Er Qiao's realistic yet ethereal line drawings make Niu Niu feel as if she is within reach.