Encounter
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy calm, delicate realist narrative style
- Readers interested in exploring the emotional state and spiritual world of urban people
- Longtime readers of Shi Zhongshan who want to understand his creative shift and stylistic expansion
- Readers hoping to find inner calm and life reflection through reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking strong plot, fast pace, and intense conflict
- Readers expecting the author's typical military themes or grand historical narrative
Reading tips
- It is recommended to read in a relatively quiet environment to better appreciate the delicate emotional flow in the text.
- The book can be viewed as a series of spiritual vignettes; there is no need to rush—reading one or two chapters a day suits it well.
- While reading, you may wish to reflect on your own life experience and on the themes of "encounter," "choice," and "cherishing" in the book.
About the publisher
Founded in 1996, Henan Literature and Art Publishing House mainly publishes books on literature and art, social sciences and broadly cultural subjects, and also edits and publishes the journal Celebrity Biography, gradually forming a publishing style characterized by full-length historical novels and biographical literature. Judging from the 269 titles in the database, its publishing scope also covers mystery and detective fiction, foreign literature, classic works and world classics. Representative books include Ellery Queen's four tragedies, Slaughterhouse-Five, Blindness, The Siege of Lisbon, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, the ten-volume Collected Works of Wang Zengqi, Old Tales Retold and the two-volume Classic Short Stories of Stanisław Lem, the God of Science Fiction. In terms of authors, it includes foreign masters such as Kurt Vonnegut, José Saramago and Ellery Queen, as well as translators such as Yang Xi, Yu Jianhua and Fan Weixin.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 作者简介
- 辑一 岁月·乡愁
- 二十岁和三十岁
- 男人四十和五十
- 那年那月
- 年关记忆
- 脸盲症
- 辑二 颜色
- 遍地花香
- 永远的军绿
- 永远的战友
- 老兵
- 老班长
- 辑三 文艺·青年
- 我们为什么读书
- 文艺青年
- 欲望
- 媒体
- 制片人们
- 导演们
- 编剧们
- 演员们
- 观众电影，电影观众
- 编剧生存之乱象丛生
- 辑四 世象
- 为人民服务
- 从英雄到平民
- 拍案：奇、惊、神
- 英雄年代
- 寻找英雄
- 通俗时代
- 辑五 地理·人文
- 美国札记
- 邻居
- 北京向北
- 将军与渠
- 南岳衡山
- 作家的书房
- 雁
- 辑六 回望·少年
- 弹弓少年
- 张棉远和他的自行车
- 那年冬天
- 三块钱的白球鞋
- “马子”小麦
- 女孩郑小西
- 枪声嘹亮
- 防空洞里的爱情
- 林小兵与军区礼堂
- 林大兵与露天电影
- 消失的二哥
- 爱情永远在路上
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About the author
Shi Zhongshan was born in October 1964 into a military family in Jilin. He joined the army in 1981 and spent sixteen years working in air force radar units, aviation units, and logistics academies. After being transferred to civilian work in 1997, he held posts at the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio and Television and Beijing Television. He is now a professional writer in the Creative Writing Office of the Political Work Department of the Armed Police Headquarters. His writing is rooted in military life. His works include The Years of Passion, Loud Military Songs, and Happiness Like a Flower, several of which have been adapted for film and television, and he has repeatedly won the Five One Project Award and the Flying Apsaras Award. His prose collection Encounters, included in the library, shows that beyond fiction he also records observations on life in a plain and sincere prose style, continuing his attention to military life and everyday existence.
