This book, written in the first person, recounts the narrator's life before attending university, spanning from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. Beginning with the parents' arranged marriage, the novel unfolds chronologically, detailing the narrator's childhood experiences moving between his grandparents' homes in the south of the city and his maternal grandfather's homes in the countryside, along with numerous stories related to the transition from rural to urban residency. The novel portrays a complex tapestry of family relationships, a chaotic yet strangely orderly rural life, childhood and adolescence, innocent romances, and the narrator's connection with writing, all presented chronologically until the narrator enters university and prepares to obtain urban residency, at which point the novel abruptly ends. *The Boy from the South of the City* represents a generation's irretrievable past and a hometown they can never return to. For them…
本书以第一人称视角回忆了“我”上大学之前所经历过的生活, 时间从1970年代初至1990年代初。小说从父母相亲为始, 以时间线为线索, 写到小时候辗转在城南的爷奶家与在农村的外公家的经历, 一级伴随着农村户口、城镇户口而来的诸多故事。掺杂着骂声与暖意的亲情、混乱粗鄙又莫名有序的乡村生活, 留在回忆中的童年、少年往事与懵懂的爱恋、与文字结缘的经历, 以时间为线索在读者面前铺开, 直到“我”考入大学, 未来即将获得城市户口, 小说戛然而止。《城南少年》里是一代人回不去的旧时光, 回不去的故乡。对于他们来说,
本书以第一人称视角回忆了“我”上大学之前所经历过的生活, 时间从1970年代初至1990年代初。小说从父母相亲为始, 以时间线为线索, 写到小时候辗转在城南的爷奶家与在农村的外公家的经历, 一级伴随着农村户口、城镇户口而来的诸多故事。掺杂着骂声与暖意的亲情、混乱粗鄙又莫名有序的乡村生活, 留在回忆中的童年、少年往事与懵懂的爱恋、与文字结缘的经历, 以时间为线索在读者面前铺开, 直到“我”考入大学, 未来即将获得城市户口, 小说戛然而止。《城南少年》里是一代人回不去的旧时光, 回不去的故乡。对于他们来说,
