This book includes three of Dong Lai's latest novellas, totaling approximately 110,000 words. The protagonists of all three novellas are women: a performance artist who leads a trend but rarely appears in public; a mother who paints on porcelain and refuses to be bound by family; and a female educator who studied in Shanghai and later returned to her hometown to found a primary school. Compared to other women's writing that focuses on family and intimate relationships, Dong Lai's women are not confined to the home but actively engage with the outside world. Their rich and powerful growth histories are experiential histories of constantly expanding life's possibilities and exploring "how women should live." Dong Lai skillfully creates multiple timelines in her novellas, using seemingly calm language to highlight the unbearable weight of life. Her writing, on one hand, reminisces about the lost simplicity and classicism.
本书收入东来最新创作的三篇中篇小说, 共计11万字左右。三篇小说的主人公皆为女性, 她们分别是引领了时代潮流, 却鲜少在公共场合露面的行为艺术家; 在瓷器上作画, 拒绝被家庭束缚的母亲; 在上海求学, 后返乡创办小学的女教育家。相比聚焦家庭与亲密关系的女性写作, 东来笔下的女性并不囿于家庭一角, 而是积极地将自身投入外部社会。她们充沛有力的成长史就是不断拓宽生活可能性, 探索“女性怎么活”的经验史。东来善于在小说中营造多重的时空, 用看似波澜不惊的语言点出生命不能承受之重。她的写作一面缅怀消逝的质朴的古典
本书收入东来最新创作的三篇中篇小说, 共计11万字左右。三篇小说的主人公皆为女性, 她们分别是引领了时代潮流, 却鲜少在公共场合露面的行为艺术家; 在瓷器上作画, 拒绝被家庭束缚的母亲; 在上海求学, 后返乡创办小学的女教育家。相比聚焦家庭与亲密关系的女性写作, 东来笔下的女性并不囿于家庭一角, 而是积极地将自身投入外部社会。她们充沛有力的成长史就是不断拓宽生活可能性, 探索“女性怎么活”的经验史。东来善于在小说中营造多重的时空, 用看似波澜不惊的语言点出生命不能承受之重。她的写作一面缅怀消逝的质朴的古典
