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River bank/河岸

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ISBN:
9787020186921
Transliterated Title:
He an
Author:
Su tong /苏童
Publisher:
Ren min wen xue chu ban she /人民文学出版社
Publish Date:
2024.09
Page:
374
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"Riverbank" is the representative novel of Su Tong, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. Su Tong said, "It should be my novel." "Riverbank" tells the broken and absurd story of Ku Wenxuan and Ku Dongliang from the 1960s to the 1980s. From the perspective of Ku Dongliang's youth, the novel makes a passionate salvage of his father Ku Wenxuan's past. Because his identity was questioned, Ku Wenxuan was sent to the river and lived in a fleet composed of people who had made mistakes. In the following ten years, Ku Wenxuan paid a painful price and tried to find his identity, but failed. In adolescence, Ku Dongliang suffered from the suppression and control of his father mentally and physically. He longed to leave his father and the fleet, but he had nowhere to go. He had a crush on Huixian, a little girl in the fleet, but Huixian returned to the shore, and his youth had nowhere to go. "Riverbank" uses a childlike perspective to review a tragic history and pay tribute to the determination and stubbornness of a generation of people.

《河岸》是茅奖得主苏童长篇小说代表作,苏童称“它应该是我的小说了”。《河岸》讲述上世纪六十至八十年代,库文轩和库东亮父子破碎又荒诞的故事。小说通过库东亮的少年视角,对父亲库文轩的过去进行了深情的打捞——因身份被质疑,库文轩被下放到河流上,生活在一群犯过错误的人所组成的船队里。此后十余年里,库文轩付出惨痛的代价,试图找回身份,却以失败告终。青春期的库东亮在精神上、肉体上饱受父亲的压制和管束,他渴望离开父亲和船队,但又无处可去。他暗恋船队的小女孩慧仙,但慧仙回到了岸上,他的青春无处安放。《河岸》用童真的视角,回顾了一段悲怆的历史,致敬了一代人生命的决与倔强。