人间食事

by Wang Zengqi

本书是汪曾祺先生的短篇小说合集，共收录汪曾祺先生流传已久的短篇小说20篇，由“故乡记忆，亦真亦幻”“寻常市井，不话寻常”“在云南，在西南联大”“异禀奇人”“聊斋新义”五章组成。他的文字，饱含历经坎坷洗礼后涅槃重生的从容与温暖，自有一种抚慰人心的力量。心之向暖，岁月静好，或许这一直是汪老字里行间希望传达给我们的生活态度。书中带有配合原文的精美彩色插图，让你在阅读文字的同时，也可以从视觉上深刻体会汪老先生文字的魅力。

230 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Wang Zengqi (Chinese: 汪曾祺; pinyin: Wāng Zēngqí) (1920–1997) was a contemporary Chinese writer. He is famous for his short stories and essays. He is regarded as a successor of Beijing School Writers (京派作家). He is also considered "the last Chinese literary intelligentsia" (中国最后一个士大夫).

Wang Zengqi was born in a squire family in 1920 in Gaoyou, Jiangsu province. In 1939, he enrolled into literature college of National Southwestern Associated University. He was tutored by Shen Congwen (沈从文) during his university life and then he started writing in 1940. After graduation, he became a teacher for several years in Kunming and Shanghai. And he published his first collection of short stories—邂逅集. In 1948, he got a job in a museum. He became an editor after he transferred to Beijing. During the Cultural Revolution he transferred to Zhangjiakou to do the grass-roots work. He had created several works when the revolution was over. After 1979, he restarted writing. Most of his representative works were created during the period.

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