雾行者

by Lu Nei, 路内

In the winter of 2004, the warehouse keeper Zhou Shao returned to a familiar place to investigate into the death of his colleague by car accident. Meanwhile, his good friend for many years, Duanmu Yun, a warehouse keeper in Nanjing left without saying goodbye. An era was gone and another era is coming. This book spans from the summer of 1998 to the eve of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. It's about the strange life of warehouse keeper, the lover at 20 who disappeared, confusion in the middle age, parting and reunion, people who want to wipe away who they used to be and how to be your true self.

580 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

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…

Reviews

[Hailong Hao · Rating 5 out of 5]

《雾行者》看完了，可是宣传语中小说的核心问题其实没有答案。如果这书出现在两年之前，我不会去看，我没有勇气去看。我感觉周围无数的人都没有勇气。现实痛苦，忘记现实会更痛苦，忘记现实之后在另一个现实看到的痛苦就是终极的痛苦。我们到底需要的是这样的文字，还是精神鸦片？答案很简单，都需要，但是这个世界需要，也许不是一些人，不是大部分人的需要。某些价值的浮现必须在这个时代之后，可到了下一个时代，这个时代的东西被淹没的是大多数啊。

[deartomato · Rating 4 out of 5]

9o-00年代打工階層的故事。倉庫管理員的角色身份讓他們可以在中國沿海城郊或內陸縣城遊蕩，文藝青年的文學和書寫熱情又讓他們與旁人不同。
他們不僅是生活參與者，也是自己和他人生活的審視者。
47萬字的小說好宏大，從2021年開始看，放在父母家中，兩年後再拿起還能繼續讀下去，小說中故事
橫跨1o年，人物豐富，我一個人，兩年，好像不算什麼。
看到有書評說文字抵抗遺忘，記錄就是存在。我籍此感受那個年代的中國草根社會百態。

[Xiaolink · Rating 3 out of 5]

真的废了好大力气才勇敢读完，实在冗长且没那么精彩，讲诉人角色涣散的不成样子，读着读着心都散了。