About the author
Tian Er is an author active in contemporary Chinese-language writing. Publicly available information about him is currently limited, and details such as his nationality and dates of birth and death have not been clearly recorded. Judging from the two works included in the collection, Everything That Comes Suddenly and Summer Candy, his writing is generally classified as social fiction, focusing on the changes that occur abruptly in everyday life and the subtle relationships between people. The titles themselves suggest a juxtaposition of the ordinary and the unexpected, showing the author's sensitivity to the details of real life. Based on the available material, Tian Er is not yet a widely studied writer, and there is little commentary or biographical material about him; readers come to know his writing mainly through these two works. His style tends toward plain narration that presents social reality and develops characters' fates within concrete situations rather than relying on grand premises. Because verifiable public information is limited, his creative trajectory and literary influence await further works and materials.
Written (3)
Rating 4.0★ Everything That Came All at Once 田耳 Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Centered on a wedding in a small town, the story follows the protagonist, who, while preparing for his wedding, encounters a former female classmate a… Rating 3.9★ Summer Candy 田耳 Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Summer Candy is a novel by the writer Tian Er. Years ago, one summer, the driver Jiang Biao repeatedly came across a little girl sleeping in the middl… Rating 3.9★ The Man Who Was Guessed to Death 田耳 CITIC Press · 2018 This is a work of suspense that wins not through gimmicks but through something else. In the title novella, the nursing home's "guess-the-death" game …Publishers
CITIC PressYangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House