Han Songluo’s brand-new collection of short stories ＂Love Story in Late Spring＂ was published.

Han Songluo’s new collection of short stories, Love Story in Late Spring, was recently published by People’s Literature Publishing House. With his unique brush strokes of the northwest earth, he observed and recorded his own stories of the times coldly and delicately. Among them, Fish Tank and Xiaguang won the first place in the novella list of Harvest in 2023, and My Father’s House of Fantasies won the fourth place in the novella list of Harvest in 2021.

"Han Songluo" is a pseudonym, and the word "Songluo" comes from the preface of Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio: "Songluo is the fire of autumn fireflies, and the charm wins glory; Drive away the dust of wild horses, and laugh at them. " For Han Songluo, writing is like chatting under the lamp, which can gather many people.

Born in Xinjiang and living in Gansu, he has spent more than 40 years in northwest China, adding new content to northwest writing by his own way of not sticking to traditional writing techniques and narrative skills.

According to Zhang Yiwei, an associate professor and writer in the Chinese Department of Fudan University, Han Songluo’s novels are "westerns" of China’s contemporary literature. Zhang Li, a well-known critic and professor at the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, also said that Han Songluo’s words are full of fantasy and a deep sense of reality, with a distant, wild and chilly wind. He is an unforgettable writer who brings new temperament. Perhaps it is precisely because of his delicate and never lazy perception of the northwest land and everything around him, spying, thinking and writing that his words and works were cast.

The six short stories in Love Story in Late Spring all revolve around "running away". Without exception, they all run away, looking for themselves or the future, or a running-away ceremony that has no purpose, no end and no answer, but must be completed.

In "The Fish Tank and the Sunlight", he took Li Zhiliang’s "running away" as the anchor point and began to exert his strength and spread outward: the boredom of adolescence and the dialogue between psychologists … … Finally, the ultimate fate of all people is to run away. The destination of running away is not to be prosperous or urban, but to be wild, crazy and a long road with no return.

"Love Song for Remy Young" describes the musical memory of a generation in the 1990s, the teenagers in Guangdong and small towns, people who want to be famous and fearless. He focused on the fate of the little people. After several years, the music ensemble, can everything be the same?

In the Golden Age of Remy Young, the hero Remy Young is trapped in a dirty, chaotic and crowded family, and he is eager to break out of the shackles and build a beautiful new world. After leaving the wilderness again and again, he was shocked that everyone was telling and confessing, spreading dark rumors to the world. Finally, with a sigh, return to his real world.

My Father’s House of Fantasies is a inner senses connected with the real world, which is constructed in fantastic imagination. The sudden disappearance of my father when I was young made the building he designed a fantastic space for me. With the "mystery of my father’s disappearance", "I" kept searching until the appearance of "Xu Lihu", which made "I" discover some clues … …

The opening of Love Story in Late Spring is the return of Pu Yilin. Lin, who has been abducted for more than 20 years, "went home", and the joy he recovered, familiar and unfamiliar relatives and friends, guilt and hatred hung over the Pu family for an instant. After the ups and downs, mother Fengtai fell into endless assumptions: if he was shown the "White Pagoda" near his home, would it be possible to get it-his son never left home, and everything in front of him would not have to be accepted in a hurry and panic?

"Lonely Hunter" is the twilight, when "she" dials the phone number randomly generated in her mind, her unstable mood and her whispers with no fixed destination. Don’t cross the line, don’t trespass, just vent everything by yourself. When the beep sounds, go back to the scene and look around, as if nothing had happened … …

Modern Express/Modern+Reporter Wen Ching Cheng

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