在屋顶上牧云

by Lu Nei

路内，2007年以长篇小说《少年巴比伦》而受到关注，被认为是当代文坛出现的最让人惊艳的小说家，被评论家称之为中国70一代最好的小说家之一。其文字幽默畅快，而又伤感缠绵，常常让人“微笑着读他的文字，却忍不住悲伤”。著有“追随三部曲”，《花街往事》《慈悲》等。曾获首届《人民文学》新人长篇奖，《GQ》中文版年度作家、华语文学传媒奖年度小说家。本书收录了路内最具代表性的短篇小说8篇。

192 pages, Unknown Binding

Published July 1, 2016

About the author

小说家，1973年生，任职于上海市作家协会。2007年在《收获》杂志发表长篇小说《少年巴比伦》而受到关注，至2013年，发表于《收获》和《人民文学》共五部长篇小说。2014年以《天使坠落在哪里》为最终篇完成70万字的“追随三部曲”。

Announcing himself as "one of the least-educated young writers in China," Lu Nei seems to have profited rather than lost by a life that began in struggle. Since the age of 19 he held a series of menial jobs around China—drifting, exploring, fighting, and observing. His interest in literature began while he had a job watching dials in a factory, and plenty of reading time on his hands. Even now, with a certain level of critical success under his belt, he refuses to give up his day job in an advertising company.

Born in Suzhou, that city provides common background for both of his novels, Young Babylon and On the Trail of Her Travels. The first recounts the semi-farcical adventures of a young man much like himself, while the second is the story of a group of disaffected youth in a small town, who suddenly decide to take their futures into their own hands…