Swallows chirp, white cranes cry/燕子呢喃, 白鹤鸣叫

This book includes short stories "The First Park in China", "Iron Man of the Canal", "Murmur of Swallows, Scream of Cranes", "People Speaking Suzhou Dialect", "Lights Outside the Window", "Blindness", and non-fiction ""Ghost Obsessed" and "No Deal"". Ruan Xiqing is a writer who speaks in a low voice, so low that we can only hear his voice after we begin to be silent, just like hearing the love and fear in the depths of our own hearts. In his writing, the times are not a background, but something that has grown into one with our lives. He accurately writes about the emotional reactions we are experiencing all the time. Ruan Xiqing's writing always explores such a theme: How to continue living when life can no longer continue? This is a life issue that each of us may face.

本书收录短篇小说《华夏第一公园》《运河铁人》《燕子呢喃, 白鹤鸣叫》《讲苏州话的人》《窗外灯》《一叶障目》, 以及非虚构《“鬼迷”与“唔不交易”》。阮夕清是一个在低处发声的写作者, 低到我们开始沉默后, 才能听到他的声音, 就像听到我们自己内心幽深处的爱与惧。在他笔下, 时代不是背景, 而是与我们的生活长成一体的事物, 他精准地写出了我们无时无刻不在经受着的情感反应。阮夕清的书写总在探索这样一个主题: 在生活无以为继时, 如何继续生活? 这是我们每一个人都可能面对的人生课题。