What issues do women write about? How to present women's stories and women's dilemmas in novels, non-fiction and even picture books? Read women's stories from these new books below.
Fu Zhen's "Zebra" will be published in January 2022
"Zebra" is adapted from some real experiences of the author Fu Zhen.
In the novel "Zebra", Fu Zhen wrote about the plight of contemporary women of all walks of life in marriage, family, workplace, and personal choices. Regarding the topic of women's anxiety, Fu Zhen believes that women are not as stable, clear and mainstream as men. gender perception. "Now the traditional female image has collapsed. We don't want to be goddesses, we don't want to be good wives and mothers, and we don't want to be hot moms or superhuman moms, but new cognitions have not yet been established. In such chaos and division, we have changed more and more anxious."
In "Zebra", the author deliberately designed two contrasting control groups, Alan, a 40-year-old female reporter from the United Kingdom, and Sister Yu, who came from a certain province in China, with the mission of inheriting the lineage, and finally committed suicide in a foreign country. Different types of women have different and similar situations when they face childbirth. No matter where a woman gives birth, whether it is in the fields, or in a clinic in Bangkok where you can use medical means and can enjoy medical guidance services, women are helpless when facing the moment of giving birth.
In rivers and land, Beijing and Bangkok, "Zebra" is also full of exotic colors, and the author's life experiences in different countries are also woven into the novel: "She looks at the purple void in the sky, as if it is a tunnel through time. Maybe this experience will seep into their flesh and lead them to a new, unknown relationship, or maybe it will still be washed away by the tides of everyday life. They will live in Beijing, or they will go back to London , may also move to Bangkok. Maybe die alone, maybe have one or two children, build a happy family. On a sunny Sunday, they walk in the park, ride bicycles, eat ice cream, and enjoy the trivial warmth of family life At the same time, she also endured the turmoil and internal and external troubles that parents must endure, and she couldn't help but start worrying about nuclear war and the future of the earth... But all that has not yet come. At this moment, in the gap between the past and the future, she She has found her place in time. The past is never dead, and the future is unknown, but people always live in the present, not the past or the future. Eternity is made up of every present, and she has to learn to live in the eternal present. "
At the end of 2020, a Netflix American drama called "Abandoned Soldier" has attracted attention. Recently, the original book of "Abandoned Soldier" was released by the People's Literature Publishing House, and the Chinese translation was translated by translators and young writers. Chess Hou Yifan, a grand master and the current number one chess player in the women's world, serves as the technical advisor.
The story of The Rebels can be told very simply: In the late 1950s, Beth Harmon, an eight-year-old orphan girl in Kentucky, came across chess by chance and eventually grew into a grandmaster.
Eight-year-old Beth first came to attention as the victim of a car accident that took away her dependent mum. The statement published in the newspaper announced to the world that the child will be alone in the world from now on, and her loneliness will be nowhere to be seen.
Like her, the children in the orphanage are subconsciously alert to the world. Adults distribute sedative pills in an attempt to stifle the liveliness and uniqueness of children with dullness and order. The children have uniform hairstyles, no personality, and life is boring and dull, until Beth meets the handyman in the basement to play chess, first watching, then learning, the world outside chess seems to disappear or assimilate, and it is no longer so difficult Bear. In the night when I couldn't sleep, the dark ceiling seemed to be illuminated by a cone of light, turning into a chessboard. At this time, there was only her and chess in the world. After that, she played Master Win, a friend of Master, a boy chess player in the whole middle school, a chess player in the whole state, and a chess player in the whole country.
"I feel like my characters are all alike, they're all isolated individuals doing things that aren't fully understood or deeply empathized by mainstream society," said Walter Tevez, author of "The Soldier". People or things like this are attracted to him.” Like Beth, he himself started learning chess at the age of eight, spent two years in a children’s rehabilitation center, was given sedative pills, once had a collection of forty or fifty chess books, and participated in the Played nearly 20 chess tournaments. He admits that "Abandoned Soldier" has a strong autobiographical character. The reason why he wrote "Abandoned Soldier", which features a female protagonist, he said he didn't think there was any physical or biological reason why women couldn't be as top-notch grandmasters as men. In his constructed world, Beth is not limited to women's events, and chess is a game based purely on strength rather than gender.
But "Abandoned Soldier" does not set up male-female hostility, but presents absolute love and obsession regardless of gender. In Beth's world, she does not hate her adoptive mother who is unable to support her, but appreciates the appropriate freedom that her adoptive mother gives her. What she wants to win is not every man who plays chess, but in the world of chess that she loves. Find the perfect move and enjoy the fun of intellectual competition. "Abandoned Soldier" certainly sets a female role model, but it is much more than that. She is every one of us, every ordinary person who is constantly exploring and trying to make a name for himself in his favorite field. The world of genius is still lonely and contradictory, just like every world of ours.
What's the craziest thought you've ever had while spending time with your parents?
"That day, I drove my mother on the highway. After driving for a while, I parked the car on the side of the road, took her out with her wheelchair, pushed her into the middle of the road, and left her there. Not far away, a A white truck is coming towards us."
This heart-wrenching scene comes from the novel "Hot Milk" by British author Deborah Levy. The redesigned pink cover and the warm name of "Hot Milk" ironically iron the book, a Booker Prize shortlist about the complex and delicate relationship between a mother and daughter who depend on each other. Relationship.
In "Hot Milk," the mother, Ruth, becomes ill, like a spontaneous paralysis, trapping her in a wheelchair. For Sophia, who holds a master's degree in anthropology, she had to take a break from her doctoral studies to make her mother's body her own research topic. But whenever the truth of the disease is approached, the mother will have completely different symptoms. Sophia sympathizes with her mother, but is suspicious. Mother's leg disease is like an invisible net, trapping her in the present life. And the mother, who claimed that her legs were unconscious, could detect the fly falling on her leg and slapped it off with the newspaper on her hand; in addition, she found that her mother had walked to the supermarket alone to buy issuing cards... So in the huge In the panic and conflict, Sophia pushed her mother in a wheelchair onto the highway.
French feminist writer Helena Cissou once wrote in her article about women's writing "The Smile of Medusa", "A woman is never far from the 'mother', she always has a little of her mother's milk. She uses White ink writing." In Sisu's view, "mother" can serve as an unnamed, non-functional source of goodness. This is a trait unique to women and different from men. From this dimension, "Hot Milk" is such a book soaked in white ink.
Levy focuses her pen on women's bodies and lusts. She writes about all women, young women, old women, women who like men, women who like women. She writes about the truest look of the female body. Ruth had "sagging breasts, layers of flesh on her lower abdomen, and her skin was pale and silky". Sophia saw her body "get bigger and bigger", "because she was tanned from swimming every day, and the fat around her waist was squeezed out of her belt like coffee spilling out of a paper cup".
The author Levy is good at writing about the injustices and injuries suffered by women in the wider world, and at the same time weaving into her thinking on the big proposition of human beings. "Hot Milk" is a profound exploration of her original family, intimacy, and individual predicament, as well as her concern for the common destiny of women.
Things that make people feel powerless, sad, and helpless come one after another, "Why is life always unsatisfactory?" "Why is no one helping me?"
Alexandra Orano, the author of the picture book "I've thought about it for a hundred times," is an illustrator and brand designer for The New York Times. Orano is a person who is used to planning the future, but did not expect his life to experience A series of upheavals: a broken marriage, a career collapse, a mother's serious illness. To heal herself, she started painting. Translator Kayak believes that what the author describes is not her own plight, but the problems that many women will encounter in the process of life.
In addition to words, more and more authors tend to use hand-painted forms to heal themselves, and to apply emotions to images is an effective way to sort out and record emotions. The author said: "The more I draw, the more The more nuanced and richer my feelings became, which finally gave me an unprecedented power, a sense of humor that rivaled the pain."
Fu Zhen's "Zebra" will be published in January 2022
"Zebra" is adapted from some real experiences of the author Fu Zhen.
In the novel "Zebra", Fu Zhen wrote about the plight of contemporary women of all walks of life in marriage, family, workplace, and personal choices. Regarding the topic of women's anxiety, Fu Zhen believes that women are not as stable, clear and mainstream as men. gender perception. "Now the traditional female image has collapsed. We don't want to be goddesses, we don't want to be good wives and mothers, and we don't want to be hot moms or superhuman moms, but new cognitions have not yet been established. In such chaos and division, we have changed more and more anxious."
In "Zebra", the author deliberately designed two contrasting control groups, Alan, a 40-year-old female reporter from the United Kingdom, and Sister Yu, who came from a certain province in China, with the mission of inheriting the lineage, and finally committed suicide in a foreign country. Different types of women have different and similar situations when they face childbirth. No matter where a woman gives birth, whether it is in the fields, or in a clinic in Bangkok where you can use medical means and can enjoy medical guidance services, women are helpless when facing the moment of giving birth.
In rivers and land, Beijing and Bangkok, "Zebra" is also full of exotic colors, and the author's life experiences in different countries are also woven into the novel: "She looks at the purple void in the sky, as if it is a tunnel through time. Maybe this experience will seep into their flesh and lead them to a new, unknown relationship, or maybe it will still be washed away by the tides of everyday life. They will live in Beijing, or they will go back to London , may also move to Bangkok. Maybe die alone, maybe have one or two children, build a happy family. On a sunny Sunday, they walk in the park, ride bicycles, eat ice cream, and enjoy the trivial warmth of family life At the same time, she also endured the turmoil and internal and external troubles that parents must endure, and she couldn't help but start worrying about nuclear war and the future of the earth... But all that has not yet come. At this moment, in the gap between the past and the future, she She has found her place in time. The past is never dead, and the future is unknown, but people always live in the present, not the past or the future. Eternity is made up of every present, and she has to learn to live in the eternal present. "
Written by Walter Travis
The original book "Abandoned Soldiers" was published by the People's Literature Publishing HouseAt the end of 2020, a Netflix American drama called "Abandoned Soldier" has attracted attention. Recently, the original book of "Abandoned Soldier" was released by the People's Literature Publishing House, and the Chinese translation was translated by translators and young writers. Chess Hou Yifan, a grand master and the current number one chess player in the women's world, serves as the technical advisor.
The story of The Rebels can be told very simply: In the late 1950s, Beth Harmon, an eight-year-old orphan girl in Kentucky, came across chess by chance and eventually grew into a grandmaster.
Eight-year-old Beth first came to attention as the victim of a car accident that took away her dependent mum. The statement published in the newspaper announced to the world that the child will be alone in the world from now on, and her loneliness will be nowhere to be seen.
Like her, the children in the orphanage are subconsciously alert to the world. Adults distribute sedative pills in an attempt to stifle the liveliness and uniqueness of children with dullness and order. The children have uniform hairstyles, no personality, and life is boring and dull, until Beth meets the handyman in the basement to play chess, first watching, then learning, the world outside chess seems to disappear or assimilate, and it is no longer so difficult Bear. In the night when I couldn't sleep, the dark ceiling seemed to be illuminated by a cone of light, turning into a chessboard. At this time, there was only her and chess in the world. After that, she played Master Win, a friend of Master, a boy chess player in the whole middle school, a chess player in the whole state, and a chess player in the whole country.
"I feel like my characters are all alike, they're all isolated individuals doing things that aren't fully understood or deeply empathized by mainstream society," said Walter Tevez, author of "The Soldier". People or things like this are attracted to him.” Like Beth, he himself started learning chess at the age of eight, spent two years in a children’s rehabilitation center, was given sedative pills, once had a collection of forty or fifty chess books, and participated in the Played nearly 20 chess tournaments. He admits that "Abandoned Soldier" has a strong autobiographical character. The reason why he wrote "Abandoned Soldier", which features a female protagonist, he said he didn't think there was any physical or biological reason why women couldn't be as top-notch grandmasters as men. In his constructed world, Beth is not limited to women's events, and chess is a game based purely on strength rather than gender.
But "Abandoned Soldier" does not set up male-female hostility, but presents absolute love and obsession regardless of gender. In Beth's world, she does not hate her adoptive mother who is unable to support her, but appreciates the appropriate freedom that her adoptive mother gives her. What she wants to win is not every man who plays chess, but in the world of chess that she loves. Find the perfect move and enjoy the fun of intellectual competition. "Abandoned Soldier" certainly sets a female role model, but it is much more than that. She is every one of us, every ordinary person who is constantly exploring and trying to make a name for himself in his favorite field. The world of genius is still lonely and contradictory, just like every world of ours.
Stills of "Abandoned Soldiers"
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy March 2022What's the craziest thought you've ever had while spending time with your parents?
"That day, I drove my mother on the highway. After driving for a while, I parked the car on the side of the road, took her out with her wheelchair, pushed her into the middle of the road, and left her there. Not far away, a A white truck is coming towards us."
This heart-wrenching scene comes from the novel "Hot Milk" by British author Deborah Levy. The redesigned pink cover and the warm name of "Hot Milk" ironically iron the book, a Booker Prize shortlist about the complex and delicate relationship between a mother and daughter who depend on each other. Relationship.
In "Hot Milk," the mother, Ruth, becomes ill, like a spontaneous paralysis, trapping her in a wheelchair. For Sophia, who holds a master's degree in anthropology, she had to take a break from her doctoral studies to make her mother's body her own research topic. But whenever the truth of the disease is approached, the mother will have completely different symptoms. Sophia sympathizes with her mother, but is suspicious. Mother's leg disease is like an invisible net, trapping her in the present life. And the mother, who claimed that her legs were unconscious, could detect the fly falling on her leg and slapped it off with the newspaper on her hand; in addition, she found that her mother had walked to the supermarket alone to buy issuing cards... So in the huge In the panic and conflict, Sophia pushed her mother in a wheelchair onto the highway.
French feminist writer Helena Cissou once wrote in her article about women's writing "The Smile of Medusa", "A woman is never far from the 'mother', she always has a little of her mother's milk. She uses White ink writing." In Sisu's view, "mother" can serve as an unnamed, non-functional source of goodness. This is a trait unique to women and different from men. From this dimension, "Hot Milk" is such a book soaked in white ink.
Levy focuses her pen on women's bodies and lusts. She writes about all women, young women, old women, women who like men, women who like women. She writes about the truest look of the female body. Ruth had "sagging breasts, layers of flesh on her lower abdomen, and her skin was pale and silky". Sophia saw her body "get bigger and bigger", "because she was tanned from swimming every day, and the fat around her waist was squeezed out of her belt like coffee spilling out of a paper cup".
The author Levy is good at writing about the injustices and injuries suffered by women in the wider world, and at the same time weaving into her thinking on the big proposition of human beings. "Hot Milk" is a profound exploration of her original family, intimacy, and individual predicament, as well as her concern for the common destiny of women.
Alexandra Orano, translated by Kayak, "I've thought about it once," published in March 2022
The picture book "I once thought about it for a hundred times" explained the predicament of lifeThings that make people feel powerless, sad, and helpless come one after another, "Why is life always unsatisfactory?" "Why is no one helping me?"
Alexandra Orano, the author of the picture book "I've thought about it for a hundred times," is an illustrator and brand designer for The New York Times. Orano is a person who is used to planning the future, but did not expect his life to experience A series of upheavals: a broken marriage, a career collapse, a mother's serious illness. To heal herself, she started painting. Translator Kayak believes that what the author describes is not her own plight, but the problems that many women will encounter in the process of life.
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Regarding the origin of creation, the author said: "When I was a little girl, I was accustomed to following the rules and doing things according to a certain fixed process, and I wanted to know 100% what would happen next. I resisted and was afraid Risks and surprises, that's why I always stay in my comfort zone where I feel safe, and my life is supposed to go on like this. But it didn't go as well as I hoped, in fact, my Life fell apart completely. Without the slightest sign, I suddenly found myself facing the breakdown of my marriage, the blockage of my career, and the serious illness of my mother. It felt like a boulder that could not be pushed against my chest. I almost suffocated."In addition to words, more and more authors tend to use hand-painted forms to heal themselves, and to apply emotions to images is an effective way to sort out and record emotions. The author said: "The more I draw, the more The more nuanced and richer my feelings became, which finally gave me an unprecedented power, a sense of humor that rivaled the pain."
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