山河入梦

Jiangnan Trilogy #2

by Ge Fei, 格非

《山河入梦》的故事发生在1952年至1962年间的江南农村。女主人公姚佩佩遭遇家庭变故从上海来到梅城，在浴室卖澡票，偶遇梅城县县长谭功达，并成为他的秘书。谭功达虽然爱慕她，但也只是发乎情，止乎礼。后来姚佩佩遭人强奸后一怒杀死了对方，并开始逃亡。而谭功达对梅城的规划理想也屡遭挫折。受到排挤下放到花家舍后，他惊奇地发现，自己梦寐以求的“桃花源”已经在这里实现……就在他决心去找姚佩佩的同一天，姚佩佩归案被枪决，而他也因为包庇罪和反革命罪在梅城监狱死去。

Genres: China, Historical Fiction

199 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Ge Fei (Chinese: 格非; pinyin: Gé Fēi; Wade–Giles: Ke Fei, born 1964) is the pen name of novelist Liu Yong (刘勇), considered by many scholars and critics to be one of the most significant of the Chinese avant-garde writers that rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He studied Chinese literature at East China Normal University and, after graduating in 1985, began to teach there and publish short stories and novellas. He read widely during his studies, but has since noted that he was particularly influenced by Borges, Faulkner and Robbe-Grillet. Some of his early, more experimental works were translated into English in the 1990s, such as "The Lost Boat", "Remembering Mr. Wu You" and "Green Yellow".

One of Ge Fei's most celebrated works is the "Jiangnan Trilogy", which explores the concept of utopia and contains many allusions to Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber.

In 2016, The Invisibility Cloak (which had won both the Lu Xun Literary Prize and the Lao She Literary Award in 2014) was the first of his longer works to be translated into English.

(from Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge_Fei_...

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

一口气看完的。作者的文笔无可挑剔，情节很吸引人，人物刻画也很到位。心理描写细腻合理。以两位主人公的性感线贯穿全书。前半分更贴近现实。但是后半部分，当主人公来到一个被监视的世外桃源。有一点和前半部分的现实主义不太和谐。感觉作者想要讽刺和批判现实，但又无法放开。这部分剧情有些突兀。总的来说，如果你对中国5，60年代乡村题材感兴趣的话，还是很推荐的。

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eine schwermütige Geschichte... Es scheint, dass Gesetze in den 1950er Jahren keine Rolle spielten. Nicht nur die Karriere eines Individuums, sondern auch sein Leben und Tod werden vom Staat — konkret gesagt, seinem Vorgesetzten— bestimmt...

[Lynn Yiyi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel it to be best of Ge Fei's trilogy. I love the anti-hero, and the female fugitive writing those desperate, tantalizing letters.