Day 7

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"I walked out of my rented house when the fog was thick and I walked alone in the empty and chaotic city. The name of the place I was going to was the funeral parlor, which is its current name; it used to be called the crematorium. I was given a notice to be at the funeral home by nine o'clock in the morning and my cremation appointment was at nine-thirty."

This is the opening chapter of Yu Hua's latest novel "The Seventh Day", which leaves the reader with a big enough suspense. What can a person who is walking towards the funeral parlor and will be cremated leave the reader after death? This time, Yu Hua uses absurd strokes and imagery to tell a story that is more desperate than "Alive" and more absurd than "Brothers", allowing readers to experience the cold of being imprisoned in a frozen glacier in the winter months, a kind of intense tug-of-war that cuts into the skin and abuses the heart, and a kind of despair after being physically and mentally exhausted by the vast wilderness with no place to stay and no place to fall.
report (malefactors to the police)

作者简介  · · · · · ·

Yu Hua, born in April 1960, began writing in 1983, and his major works include Brothers, Alive, Xu San Guan Selling Blood, and Shouting in the Drizzle. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and published in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Poland, Brazil, Israel, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and India. He was awarded the Italian Grinzana? Carver Literary Prize (1998), Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2004), Special Contribution to the Chinese Book Award (2005), and the French International Courier Prize for Foreign Fiction (2008).